# Rada (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/rada/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “glad”, “thankful” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 464 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 464 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 18, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Feminine form of dialectal Bulgarian and Ukrainian рад (rad, “glad, thankful”), from Proto-Slavic *radъ.

## What it means

Rada is grouped under joy.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 6 | 6,377 |
| 1969 | 6 | 7,234 |
| 1970 | 5 | 8,952 |
| 1978 | 5 | 10,971 |
| 1979 | 5 | 11,431 |
| 1982 | 5 | 11,801 |
| 2012 | 5 | 18,917 |
| 2014 | 6 | 16,091 |
| 2016 | 5 | 18,252 |
| 2017 | 5 | 17,854 |
| 2020 | 5 | 16,981 |
| 2021 | 10 | 10,145 |
| 2022 | 5 | 17,204 |
| 2023 | 7 | 13,151 |
| 2024 | 6 | 14,878 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 4 | 4,764 |
| 2016 | 4 | 4,763 |
| 2017 | 3 | 5,765 |
| 2020 | 4 | 4,535 |
| 2023 | 3 | 5,687 |

## People named Rada

- Rada Akbar, Afghan visual artist
- Rada Laykova, Bulgarian politician (born 1990)
- Rada Iveković, Croatian philosopher and writer (born 1945)
- Rada Borić, Croatian feminist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.