Prado

Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●(measured from records)

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

How Prado is read●(measured from records)

Prado is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• Spanish43%

  meadow

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Portuguese38%

  meadow (an extensive area of grassland)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• English11%

  museum, Madrid, Spain

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Other names spelled this way◐(inferred from the name graph)

Prado is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English surname9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Canada

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Prädö, Prâdo, Pradö, Prãdõ

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Prádo

62 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●(measured from records)

Prado is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Italian, do lat. pratum, prado; cidadão que vive ou trabalha em pradarias

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• dos campos; from the prairies

  as a name·Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

• In Italian, Variante di Prato

  as a name·Dizionario dei cognomi italiani

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name●(measured from records)

• Mariano Ignacio Pradob. 1826PEPresident of Peru (1826-1901)
• Manuel Prado Ugartecheb. 1889PE41st & 46th President of Peru (1889-1967)
• Perez Pradob. 1916CUCuban bandleader, pianist, composer and arranger (1917–1989)
• Lilia Pradob. 1928MXMexican actress (1928-2006)
• João Gilbertob. 1931BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian musician, pioneer of bossa nova (1931–2019)
• John Harold Lozanob. 1972COnot in their usual nameColombian footballer
• Mariana Ximenesb. 1981BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian actress
• Gonzalo Javier Rodríguezb. 1984ARnot in their usual nameArgentine association football player
• Tiago Pradob. 1984BRBrazilian association football player
• Miguel Layúnb. 1988MXnot in their usual nameMexican association football player

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them○(machine-generated)

Evidence●(measured from records)

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Prado come from?

meadow (an extensive area of grassland) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

How do you pronounce Prado?

A machine transcription gives /pɾado/ (IPA) for Spanish.

What does the name Prado mean?

In Spanish, meadow

In which country does Prado have the most bearers?

In Brazil, the national register counted about 287 thousand people named Prado, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled prado.

Where is Prado most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Prado is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 663 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Prado?

In Brazil, the national register counted 287,265 people named Prado, about 1 in 737 residents.

How common is Prado compared with other names?

In Brazil, Prado is the 105th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.