Granados
A Spanish surname that most often points to a place called Granada or to groves of pomegranates.
The #1,347 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 11,790 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Granados is a Spanish surname built from granada, the Spanish word for a pomegranate and also the name of the city of Granada. In surname use, it likely began either as a locational name for someone from Granada or from a place associated with pomegranates, orchards, or similar landscape features. The ending -os is a normal Spanish plural or adjectival form and can reflect a family or place-based designation rather than a literal plural meaning.
History
As a Hispanic surname, Granados is found in Spain and throughout Latin America, especially in areas shaped by Spanish settlement. In the Americas it spread through migration, colonial-era naming practices, and later internal movement across Spanish-speaking countries and into the United States. The name is common enough today to be familiar in both Spanish and English-language communities.
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Fun fact
Granada the city is famous for the Alhambra, and the pomegranate has long been a symbol associated with the region.