Prado (surname)
Appearance
- 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.
About the 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 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).
- People
- Edward C. Prado, a U.S. appeals court judge
- Paulo Silas do Prado Pereira, a former Brazilian football (soccer) player
- Guilherme de Almeida Prado, a Brazilian film director (pt:Guilherme de Almeida Prado)
- Guilherme do Prado Raymundo, Brazilian professional football player
- José Antônio de Almeida Prado (born 1943), Brazilian composer
- Manuel Prado y Ugarteche, Peruvian politician
- Mariano Ignacio Prado, Peruvian politician
- Miguelanxo Prado, a Galician (Spain) comic book creator
- Martín Prado, a Venezuelan baseball player
- Perez Prado, a Cuban bandleader
- Wagner Prado, a Brazilian mixed martial artist