Rada
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: bay, creek, cove (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 40 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈra.ð̞a/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Rada is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- BOBolivia≈1 in 3.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 3.8K
- CZCzechia1 in 4.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 190 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Rada
- Spanish:/ˈra.ð̞a/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A parliamentary body in a number of Slavic countries.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Rada is read
(measured from records)Rada is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish54%
bay, creek, cove
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English27%
A parliamentary body in a number of Slavic countries.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Czech12%
advice, counsel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where the surname Rada is found
(measured from records)Rada counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Rada | 48 |
| CO Colombia | #593 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | 10 | Rada | 87 |
| VE Venezuela | #492 | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Rada | 47 |
| BO Bolivia | #232 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Rada | 44 |
| US United States | — | 2,520 | 1 in 132K | 2.5K | Rada | 190 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 2,228 | 1 in 4.8K | 2.2K | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Rada is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom., serbische, kroatische, slowenische Kurzform von Namen, die den Namenbestandteil »Rad-« (zu urslaw.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Alegre, contenta
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Slavonic: short form of various female compound names containing the vocabulary element rad glad, as for example Radost awa (see RADOS AW ).
as a word
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- El Faryb. 1937ESnot in their usual nameSpanish singer (1937-2007)
- Petr Radab. 1958CZprofessional footballer turned coach
- Karel Radab. 1971CZCzech football defender
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)81 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 40 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rada mean?
- In Spanish, bay, creek, cove
- Where does the name Rada come from?
- A parliamentary body in a number of Slavic countries. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Rada?
- In the etymology graph, Radana is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Rada?
- In Spanish /ˈra.ð̞a/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Rada?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Rada in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rada. After it come Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Rada?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,520 people named Rada in 2010, about 1 in 132 thousand residents.
- How common is Rada compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Rada is the 232nd most common surname of 29,432 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/radaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rada” — the 232nd most common surname in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.