Prates
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/pɾɐtjʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Prates is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 3.4K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 4.3K
- PTPortugal≈1 in 7.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 153 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
61,830 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Prates counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #263 | 61,830 | 1 in 3.4K | 62K | Prates | 153 |
| PT Portugal | #390 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | — | Prates | 77 |
| UY Uruguay | #850 | 796 | 1 in 4.3K | 796 | Prates | 23 |
| AR Argentina | — | 251 | 1 in 181K | 251 | Prates | 34 |
| US United States | — | 105 | 1 in 3.2M | 163 | Prates | 99 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Prates | 6 |
61,830 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Prates is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Bokmål, passive form of prate
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Homero Pratesb. 1890BRBrazilian lawyer
- Antonio Cabrerab. 1928PYnot in their usual nameParaguayan footballer
- Nadir Eraldo Pratesb. 1933BRBrazilian footballer
- Suzana Pratesb. 1940BRBrazilian feminist and academic (1940-1988)
- Luiz Carlos Pratesb. 1943BRBrazilian psychologist
- Marcia Pratesb. 1960BRBrazilian writer
- João Manuel Lopez Pratesb. 1973PTPortuguese association football manager
- César Pratesb. 1975BRBrazilian footballer
- Carlos Pratesb. 1993BRBrazilian mixed martial artist and kickboxer
- Guilherme Pratesb. 1993BRBrazilian actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 62K | #386 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 796 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 251 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 163 | #114,090 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 105 | #154,907 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Prates?
- A machine transcription gives /pɾɐtjʃ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Prates have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 62 thousand people named Prates, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled prates.
- Where is Prates most common?
- Prates is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Prates?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 61,830 people named Prates, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Prates compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Prates is the 263rd most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Prates?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pratesThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Prates” — the 263rd most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.