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Konrad

More than 90,000 Polish men carry it, but it's fading with each year: fewer than 200 boys got it last year. Slavic at root, from a word for "bold counsel".

Konrad Pronunciation

Konrad is pronounced KON-raht (/ˈkɔnrat/).

Related names
Konrada
Alive in 2025
90,507
Newborns 2025
161
National rank
#130
Next name day
21 November
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What Konrad means

Where Konrad comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Konrad comes to Polish from Slavic roots, and it holds the sense of bold counsel, a śmiały doradca who speaks up when others go quiet.

The name has a plainer cousin: Kondrat, an older variant that once moved through the same villages and parish records. Where Konrad kept its formal shape, Kondrat softened toward everyday speech. Both point back to the same idea, advice given without flinching.

A Konrad is easy to place on a class register, the teacher reading it out between a Kamil and a Krzysztof. The name sits well there. It is short enough to call across a schoolyard and firm enough to sign at the bottom of a form.

The meaning of bold counsel was not a promise pinned on at birth. It grew from the parts of the name and stayed. To carry the name Konrad is to carry that old pairing of courage and good sense, and the variant Kondrat holds it too.

When Konrad celebrates name day

Konrad appears 12 times in the Polish name day calendar, 5 of them as a main name, the first on 19 February.

Next name day
21 November
Saturday in 2026
Next one in 72 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

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 Konrad

1 in 236 men in Poland is named Konrad. 90,507 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #130 among male names.

People with the name Konrad 2019 → 2025
90,507 -191 since 2019
2020 90,735 +37
2021 90,722 -13
2022 90,698 -24
2023 90,692 -6
2024 90,609 -83
2025 90,507 -102

Konrad's popularity over time

161 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #207 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #130 name among living men, even as it slips to #207 among newborns.

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161 newborns with the name Konrad in 2025
national rank #207 that year

Where Konrad is most popular

Konrad is most popular in Pomeranian, 120% above the national average (262 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Kuyavian-Pomeranian (+97%) and Warmian-Masurian (+31%). It is least common in Świętokrzyskie and Masovian, 49% and 48% below average respectively.

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Konrad as a middle name

Konrad is a first name for 90,507 men in Poland and a middle name for another 43,041, a 68/32 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 63rd, between Zygmunt (45,511) and Sylwester (42,312).

As a first name
90,507
As a middle name
43,041
first name 68% middle name 32%
Middle-name ranking men

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