Rado Family History

Catalan (Radó): from the ancient Germanic personal name Rado. Catalan (Radó): nickname for a fat person, a variant of Rodó from a derivative of Latin rotundus ‘round’. Italian: from an ancient Germanic personal name Rato, Rado, Ratdo (from rād ‘advice, counsel’) or in some cases possibly from the personal name Corrado with loss of the first syllable.

Hungarian (Radó): from the old personal name Radó from Rád of Slavic origin (see Rad). Croatian: of Hungarian origin (see 4 above). Croatian: probably an Italianized form of Radić (see Radic).

Slovak: from the personal name Rado, a short form of compound names based on Old Slavic radъ ‘merry, glad’ (see e.g. Radek). In part, it is of similar Hungarian origin (see 4 above).