Protea is a bold, sculptural flower named for the shape-shifting sea god Proteus, for the blossoms many forms.
Exotic and strong, it makes a striking, one-of-a-kind name.
Protea does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Protea reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.