# Prieto (surname)

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

A surname from Spanish.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Spanish |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 19,520 |
| US rank (2010) | 1,833 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 15,817 people |
| Change since 2000 | +32% (14,786 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Prieto.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Prieto 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) | 7.4% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.6% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 90% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.4% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.3% |
| Two or more races | 0.3% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Prieto in Colombia.

## People named Prieto

- Jaime Prieto Amaya, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cúcuta, Colombia (1941–2010)

## Similar surnames

Pruitt, Pruett, Pride, Porto, Pritt, Puerto, Proto, Prato, Prete, Pretti, Prewitt, Pratt.

## 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.