The Most Popular Names. On this page you will find lists of the most popular given names in various regions of the world. Typically the information is compiled by a national statistics agency, though in some cases it comes from another source.
Carlos /car-los/ [2 sylls.] as a boys' name is pronounced KAR-lohs. It is of Spanish and Old German origin, and the meaning of Carlos is free man. Variant of Charles.See also Carl. Film directors Carlos Saura, and Carl Ponti.arlos is a very popular first name for men (#81 out of 1220, Top 7%) and also a very popular surname for all people (#2718 out of 150436, Top 2%).
About the origin of the last name, there are two known possible origins to the Prado surname: 1  The first one indicates the origin of the last name comes from Spain when the son of a noblewoman took the last name after the prado, Spanish word for field, where he was born.