Rada

Family name origins & meanings

• Spanish and Catalan : topographic name from rada ‘natural bay’.
• Spanish and Catalan : habitational name from places called Rada (Cantabria), Rada de Haro (Cuenca), La Rada (Albacete, Cuenca) or Rada de Moraira (Alacant), or from a Castilianized variant of Basque Arrada, habitational name from a place called Arrada in Navarre.
• Czech : from a short form of any of several Slavic personal names containing the first element rad- ‘glad’, ‘merry’, in particular Radoslav, in which the second element means ‘glory’, and Radomir, in which the second element means ‘great’, ‘famous’.
• Hungarian : from the old secular personal name Rada or Ráda, of Slavic origin.