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).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Prado
Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Prado last name
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Prado last name
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Prado census records
You can use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Prado surname lived over the years.
While the questions in census records vary from place to place, and year to year, you can generally find information like name of household members, ages, birthplaces, residences, occupations, etc.
Click on a place to view Prado immigration records
The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry.co.uk.
You can find out where the majority of the Prado families were living before
they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival, and destination.
Click on a circle in the chart to view Prado emigration records
You can find out when most of the Prado families immigrated
to the United States.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
Did the Prados fight in a war? Military records can tell you a lot
about your ancestors including birthplace, occupation and even physical descriptions.