Rad: Name Meaning, Origin, Popularity, & Inspiration

Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

Old German : Brave counsel
Scandinavian : Helpful; confident
English : Intelligent
Old English : Red cliff
English : Helpful

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Family name origins & meanings

Muslim : variant of Raad.
German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with rād, rāt ‘advice’, ‘counsel’.
Hungarian (Rád) : from the old secular personal name Rád, from Slavic Rad ‘joyful’ (see Rada).

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