Dargorad
A two-stem Slavic name: "dear" from the old root behind `drogi`, and "glad" from the same `-rad` that closes Radosław. Almost no one carries it now, and most Poles will go a lifetime without meeting a Dargorad.
Dargorad Pronunciation
Dargorad is pronounced dahr-GO-raht (/darˈgɔrat/).
What Dargorad means
Where Dargorad comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Dargorad follows the old Slavic habit of building a name from two stems. The second element, `-rad`, means glad or eager, and it stands inside Radosław and Radomir as well. The first element traces back to Slavic *dorgъ, dear, the same root that gives Polish `drogi`. Read together, the two halves come out as dear and glad.
Names shaped this way were common among the early Slavs, long before Poland kept steady written records. Most of them survive now only in charters and in the odd place name. Dargorad is rare. A child given the name today would likely be the only Dargorad on a school register.
The sense of the name sits right on its surface, with no later legend needed to explain it. The Polish gloss holds close to the parts: `drogi i rad`, dear and glad.
When Dargorad celebrates name day
Dargorad appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 24 November.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Dargorad
1 in 10673094 men in Poland is named Dargorad. 2 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #47676 among male names.