Where the Estrada name comes from

Estrada comes from the Galician and Portuguese word estrada, meaning road. The word descends from Latin strata. In Latin that term described a paved way. The surname is carried widely across Spain and Latin America, and especially in Mexico.

The 2010 United States Census counted 127,470 people named Estrada, making it the 238th most common surname in the country. The name also passed from Spanish into Tagalog. By 2014 it ranked as the 74th most common surname in the Philippines, carried by 73,597 people.