Prata Family History
Prata Name Meaning
Italian: habitational name from any of numerous places named from Latin pratum ‘meadow’ including Prata di Principato Ultra in Avellino province Prata Sannita in Caserta Prata d'Ansidonia in Aquila or Prata di Pordenone in Pordenone province. Portuguese: metonymic occupational name for a worker in silver from prata ‘silver’ (from Late Latin plata ‘sheet metal’ apparently from plat(t)us ‘flat’).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022