Rade as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Rade

What is the meaning of the name Rade ?

The baby name Rade is a boy name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced RAH-deh.

Rade is Croatian, Serbian, Slavic in Origin.

Rade is a South Slavic masculine name, especially Serbian and Croatian, built on the inherited Slavic element rad-. Its earliest reconstructable form is the Proto-Slavic adjective *radъ, glad, willing, eager, reflected in Serbian/Croatian rad and in nouns such as radost, joy. As a name, Rade began as a hypocoristic: rad- plus the short masculine ending -e, the same base found in compounds such as Radoslav, Radomir, and Radovan. The literal sense is therefore glad or willing.

In the Balkans it functions both as a familiar form and as a registered given name, written Раде in Serbian Cyrillic and Rade in Latin orthographies. Usage is most visible in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and North Macedonia, with related forms Rado, Radko, and Czech or Polish Radek. Public bearers include actor Rade Šerbedžija and Serbian singer Rade Lacković. In English-speaking countries it remains rare, chiefly in families with South Slavic ties.