Last 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.
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