Rada Family History
Rada Name Meaning
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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Name Distribution of Rada Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Rada families
 23 - 43  8 - 22 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Rada families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Rada families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Rada Family Origin
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Rada Family Occupations
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