Rada Family History
- Rada Name Meaning
- Spanish and Catalan: topographic name from rada ‘natural bay’. Spanish and Catalan: habitational name from places called Rada (Cantabria), Rada de Haro (Cuenca), La Rada (Albacete, Cuenca) or Rada de Moraira (Alacant), or from a Castilianized variant of Basque Arrada, habitational name from a place called Arrada in Navarre. Czech: from a short form of any of several Slavic personal names containing the first element rad- ‘glad’, ‘merry’, in particular Radoslav, in which the second element means ‘glory’, and Radomir, in which the second element means ‘great’, ‘famous’. Hungarian: from the old secular personal name Rada or Ráda, of Slavic origin.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 48,402 Historical Documents with Rada on Ancestry
- 28,686 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 5,557 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,317 Military Records
- 2,478 Immigration Records
- 9,364 Member Trees
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Number of Rada families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Rada census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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