Miłorad
Just two men in Poland carry this Slavic name, and no boy has been given it this century: meeting one would be a story you'd tell. Its roots are warm, from Slavic parts meaning "dear" and "glad".
Miłorad Pronunciation
Miłorad is pronounced mee-WO-raht (/miˈwɔrat/).
What Miłorad means
Where Miłorad comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Miłorad comes from Slavic name-building, joined the old way from two roots. The first, mił, means dear or gracious. The second, rad, means glad or willing. Set side by side, they give the short meaning, dear and glad.
Both halves still live in everyday Polish. A speaker hears miły, the ordinary word for kind or nice, and rad, an older adjective for glad. This pairing of roots is how the oldest Slavic names were formed, the same pattern behind Bogumił and Radosław. The name stays readable to whoever carries it. Few Polish forms manage that.
On a class register in a Polish school, Miłorad would sit among shorter, newer names, older than most by centuries. It has no common diminutive, so it appears written in full, dear and glad.
How many people are named Miłorad
1 in 10673094 men in Poland is named Miłorad. 2 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #56315 among male names.