Conrad is an Old German name meaning ‘brave counsel’. It consists of ‘kuoni’ for ‘brave’ and ‘rat’ for ‘counsel, advice’. In England, this name is known since the Middle Ages, but is only commonly used since the 19th century.
Conrad is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Conrad isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Conrad ranks 555. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Conrad. In the entire USA, approximately 30,029 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Conrad. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Conrad is an Old German name meaning ‘brave counsel’. It consists of ‘kuoni’ for ‘brave’ and ‘rat’ for ‘counsel, advice’. In England, this name is known since the Middle Ages, but is only commonly used since the 19th century.
In the US,... Conrad has been known since the 19th century and is by and large consistently popular, though quite rare.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Conrad annualy. This means that there have been boys named Conrad who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Conrad have consistently been special. A small flight of popularity was experienced by the name way back in the last century and in one particular year, parents liked Conrad even more than any other time: in 1931, it holds its present record at rank #203 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Conrad was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Conrad has never been ranked higher than #203. In 2022, he rivaled the 538 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 511 boys named Conrad were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Conrad were born, there have been 276 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for boys’ names. This is because 5.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With six letters, the name Conrad is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 5.2% of all boys' names that begin with a C, this first letter is thus much more common than the average of all letters. And which boys’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Charles.
If your name is Conrad and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Conrad, you can simply say:
Cat
Orange
Nut
Rocket
Apple
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Conrad
Conrad
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
O
N
R
A
D
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
O
N
R
A
D
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Conrad sounds like this:
