Surname Spotlight: Ladó

Ladó turns up in national name statistics on both sides of the Atlantic. The 2010 US Census counted 440 people named Ladó, ranking it number 48,060 among American surnames. Spain's INE counts 1,566 residents with Ladó as first surname and 1,480 with it as second. Each Spaniard has two surnames, so the same name is counted once as first and once as second surname. No reliable dictionary entry explains Ladó, so any origin we give a client is traced from their own ancestors.

In Wikidata, Ladó is listed as a Spanish surname.

Heraldry is personal. Arms recorded for a Ladó family belonged to that family, and other bearers of the name may have no link to them. For the full story, order the Ladó surname pack.