Family name origins & meanings
- Catalan and Galician : habitational name from Prada de Conflent, in northern Catalonia, or any other places in Catalonia and in Galicia named Prada, so named from Catalan prada or a variant of Galician prado ‘meadow’ (Latin pratum).
- Northern Italian : habitational name from any of numerous places in northern Italy called Prada, from a variant of Prata, cognate with 1 above.