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Prostamo

Prostamo. Attested in Argentina, Australia, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Ukraine.

Only sounds alike

An algorithm's guess. Useful for casting a net, and not evidence.

PrestamoPorostami

Where it came from

No place of this name is in the gazetteer, so this map says nothing about where the name came from. Search a surname anywhere else and you will be told an origin — that it is Latin, or Italian, or means «joyful». That is etymology, it is usually unsourced, and it is a different question from the one answered here.

Where it is borne, and where a record names it

Attested in 6 countries: Argentina, Australia, Hong Kong, India, Italy, UkraineArgentina — attested, not countedAustralia — attested, not countedHong Kong — attested, not countedIndia — attested, not countedItaly — attested, not countedUkraine — attested, not counted
A dot is a country, not a place. It sits at the country's centre because a national register counts a country; nothing here says where in it these people are. A hollow ring is attested but not counted — Denmark publishes which surnames exist and not how many carry each, and a family archive finds a name without counting heads. Sizing those by a number nobody published would invent it. Blank is not absence. This draws the 6 countries where the eleven registers and eight archives behind this atlas attest the name. Most of the world has no surname register this project can read, and the ones that do and will not are listed with the reason.

Country by country

Each country below can carry up to three different kinds of evidence, and none of them is the same claim. A register is a head-count — a state counted these people. A record is one document naming the surname on that ground, narrower evidence and often much older. And a volume overlapping these dates is a document from the right place and years — never a document known to name this surname. None of the three ever means the name exists in that country and nowhere else, or that it exists nowhere but here.

Argentina

Found in a record — Mazza.

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Prostamo in Argentina, so it cannot narrow Argentina's 9,060 volumes by date — see Argentina's own page for all of it.

Australia

Found in a record — Mazza.

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Prostamo in Australia, so it cannot narrow Australia's 1,889 volumes by date — see Australia's own page for all of it.

Hong Kong

Found in a record — Mazza.

Whose archive to write to

India

Found in a record — Mazza.

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Prostamo in India, so it cannot narrow India's 3,068 volumes by date — see India's own page for all of it.

Italy

Found in a record — Falco; Mazza.

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Prostamo in Italy, so it cannot narrow Italy's 1,288,913 volumes by date — see Italy's own page for all of it.

Ukraine

Found in a record — Mazza.

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Prostamo in Ukraine, so it cannot narrow Ukraine's 16,568 volumes by date — see Ukraine's own page for all of it.

Whose archive held that ground, and when

Every surname site can tell you a name is common somewhere. This one also knows which filing system held that ground in which years — and those are the two halves of one question: my people were called this, they were there, so who has the paper, and for which century. A name in Croatia before 1881 may sit in a military series and not a county one; a name in the Netherlands before 1811 has no civil record at all, only a baptism.

This is about the ground, not about your family. A register counting a name in a country says nothing about which village. And these are the pieces of a country this atlas has drawn, which in a large one may be a corner of it — Acadia reaches into Maine and is not a statement about the United States, and Bohemia's ground crosses into Poland. Each region's own page says which ground it covers. Where a country is missing below, nothing covers it yet.

Argentina
Australia
  • Queensland 3 eras New South Wales → Colony of Queensland → Australia
Italy
  • Carnia, Friuli 6 eras Patriarchate of Aquileia → Republic of Venice → Austria → Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy → …
  • Campania — Caserta and Naples 5 eras Kingdom of Naples → Napoleonic Kingdom of Naples → Kingdom of the Two Sicilies → Kingdom of Italy → …
  • Eastern Sicily — Catania 4 eras Kingdom of Sicily → Kingdom of the Two Sicilies → Kingdom of Italy → Italy
  • Calabria 4 eras Kingdom of Naples → Napoleonic Kingdom of Naples → Kingdom of the Two Sicilies → Italy
  • Carniola and the Slovene lands 8 eras Inner Austria → Austria → The Illyrian Provinces → Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, then Yugoslavia → …
Ukraine
  • Galicia 6 eras Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia → Poland → Austria → German and Soviet occupation → …
  • Bukovina 7 eras Moldavia, under Ottoman suzerainty → Austria → Romania → Soviet annexation of the north → …
  • Congress Poland — the Russian partition 7 eras Russian Empire → Duchy of Warsaw → Kingdom of Poland, in personal union with Russia → Poland, restored → …

No record region is drawn yet for Hong Kong, India — which is a gap in this atlas and not a statement about those countries.

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