# Prado (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/prado/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Portuguese |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 23,436 |
| US rank (2010) | 1,533 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 13,174 people |
| Change since 2000 | +33% (17,586 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese and Spanish Prado.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Prado in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 7.3% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.4% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 89% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 3.0% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.1% |
| Two or more races | 0.3% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Prado in Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Bolivia and the United States.

## People named Prado

- Manuel Prado Ugarteche, 41st & 46th President of Peru (1889-1967)
- Tiago Prado, Brazilian association football player
- Eliseo Prado, Argentine association football player (1929-2016)
- Ricardo Prado, Brazilian swimmer
- Gary Prado Salmón, Bolivian politician
- Joana Prado, Brazilian model
- Lucas Prado, Brazilian paralympic athlete
- José Antônio Rezende de Almeida Prado, Brazilian composer and pianist (1943–2010)
- João Gilberto, Brazilian musician, pioneer of bossa nova (1931–2019)
- Mariana Ximenes, Brazilian actress

## Similar surnames

Pardo, Prada, Parodi, Prato, Pratt, Pruitt, Prieto, Perdue, Purdy, Parrott, Pruett, Parada.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.