Rade

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Раде in MK North Macedonia, RU Russia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Rade is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name9.5K records spelled Rade21 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Germany, Austria, Australia

  Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

  Also written Raede, Räde, Ráďa, Radé, Raède

• Hindi given name7.2K records spelled Rade3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Serbia

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written Råde

• French given name3.2K records spelled Rade9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Serbia, Belgium

  Also written Radé, Radė, Ràde, Rãdè, Räde

• Spanish given name2.1K records spelled Rade9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Serbia, Argentina, Brazil

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Ráde, Räde, Radé, Radè, Råde

• a separate given name825 records spelled Rade4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Serbia, United Kingdom

  Also written Räde, Radé, Råde

• Indonesian given name743 records spelled Rade3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, India, United States, Serbia

  Also written Radé

47 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Rade is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Serbo-Croatian, third-person plural present of raditi

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In enm, inflection of rad (“quick”):

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of rādō

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Italian, third-person singular present indicative of radere

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Dutch, singular present subjunctive of raden

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 88 years between 1918–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Rade Mihaljčićb. 1937RSSerbian historian
• Rade Šerbedžijab. 1946HRCroatian actor
• Rade Tovladijacb. 1961RSComics artist; architect; writer
• Rade Tošićb. 1965BAYugoslav footballer
• Rade Bogdanovićb. 1970RSSerbian association football player
• Rade Vrčakovskib. 1980MKMacedonian singer
• Rade Pricab. 1980SESwedish footballer
• Rade Dugalićb. 1992RSSerbian association football player
• Rade Krunićb. 1993BABosnian association football player
• Rade Zagoracb. 1995RSSerbian basketball player (born 1995)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 410 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Rade?

We estimate roughly 4.8 thousand people bear Rade (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Rade have the most bearers?

Rade is most frequently recorded in Serbia, where it is most often spelled rade.

How common is Rade compared with other names?

In Serbia, Rade is the 91st most common given name of 10,124 given names recorded there.

Is Rade a male or female name?

Rade is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Rade mean?

Recorded meaning: from place names, especially in Hanover and Holstein