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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish, Galician, Portuguese, and Jewish (Sephardic) : habitational name from any of the numerous places in Spain (especially in Galicia) and Portugal named or named with Prado, from prado ‘meadow’ (from Latin pratum).

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