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Prado (surname)

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  • Prado is ranked 2,358 out of 88,799 in the United States.[1]
  • There are approximately 9,553 people with the surname Prado in Spain, making it the 490th most common in the country.[2]
  • The name is commonly found in Italy, France and Brazil and is a derivative of Prato.

Origin of the last name:

There are two known possible origins to the Prado surname.

The first one indicates the origin of the last name comes from Spain when the son of a noblewoman took the last name after the prado, Spanish word for field, where he was born.

The last name is also said[by whom?] to have an Italian origin, more specifically from the Island of Sicily, where records have been found that indicate the presence of a noble family in the 16th century by the last name Prado. Prado comes from a variation of prato (Italian word for field).

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