Prado (surname)

Prado is a last name of Italian origin from the island of Sicily; variations of the last name include "Di Prado" and "Prato" 
Prado is ranked 2,358 out of 88,799 in the United States.
There are approximately 9,553 people with the surname Prado in Spain, making it the 490th-most-common in the country.
The name is commonly found in Italy, France, and Brazil.
About the origin of the last name, there are two known possible origins to the Prado surname (Italian and/or Spanish): 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" (the Italian word for field).