Family name origins & meanings
- Italian : habitational name from Prata di Principato Ultra in Avellino province, Prata Sannita (Caserta), Prata d’Ansidonia (Aquila), or Prata di Pordenone (Pordenone).
- Portuguese : metonymic occupational name for a worker in silver, from prata ‘silver’ (Late Latin plata ‘sheet metal’, apparently from plat(t)us ‘flat’).