Konrada
A feminine form built on Konrad, Germanic for "bold counsel". Only 59 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one, and no girls have been given it in years.
Konrada Pronunciation
Konrada is pronounced kon-RAH-dah (/kɔnˈrada/).
What Konrada means
Where Konrada comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Konrada is the feminine of `Konrad`, and both grow from the same Germanic root: kuon, meaning bold, joined to rad, counsel. Put together, the name reads as bold counsel, an adviser who is not afraid to speak. The masculine form arrived in Poland with medieval rulers, and Konrada follows it across the gender line, keeping the meaning intact while changing the ending.
The advice in the name is the interesting part. A counsellor can be timid. This one is not. The kuon half insists on nerve, so the odważny doradca of the Polish gloss is a person who gives their opinion even when it costs them something.
Konrada stays rare in Poland. Read a school register aloud and you will meet many a Konrad before one Konrada answers. That scarcity gives the name its edge. It borrows the weight of a well known masculine name and turns it slightly, so the bearer stands a little apart from every Konrad in the room. The bold counsel is still there in the two old roots, kuon and rad.
When Konrada celebrates name day
Konrada appears 9 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 19 February.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
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 Konrada
1 in 382099 women in Poland is named Konrada. 59 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4817 among female names.
Konrada as a middle name
Konrada is a first name for 59 women in Poland and a middle name for another 109, a 35/65 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 635th, between Ismena (110) and Leah (109).
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#633 Florence110
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#634 Ismena110
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#635 Konrada109
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#636 Leah109
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#637 Lucjana109