Given name & surname
Prokop
Prokop is a surname from Czech, ultimately from Belarusian. It is used in English, Czech, Old Czech, and Slovak.
Original GreekΠρόκοπ
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Prokop shares an earlier linguistic root with Prokopi. An origin associated with Prokopi is Greek.
Explained through its name family
Prokop’s family of names
In Czech usage, Prokop has a diminutive in Prokůpek. Prokop shares a linguistic root with Prokopi. In Polish usage, Prokop has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Procopio.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Prokop has relatives in 11 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
14 related names in 11 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 15
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Prokop
- Prokop the GreatHussite priest and military leader1380–1434
- Procopius of GazaByzantine sophist and rhetorician465–528
- Procopius of SázavaCzech abbot (end of 10th century-1053)970–1053
- Procopius of UstyugSaint of Eastern Orthodox Church1300–1303
- Prokop of MoraviaMargrave of Moravia1355–1405
- Prokop BrožCzech Roman Catholic priestborn 1972
- Prokop MurraAlbanian politician (1921-2007)
- Prokop ChocholoušekCzech humorist, publicist and writer (1819–1864)
- Prokop SieniawskiPolish noble1602–1627
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