MEANING & HISTORY
What does Konrad mean?
Konrad is a Germanic compound combining the elements for bold or brave and counsel. Conrad is a related spelling transmitted into English and other languages.
The two roots are conventional name elements, so bold counsel is a concise gloss rather than a literal statement about someone giving advice. The K spelling has an established European history of its own.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
A dictionary pronunciation or syllable division has not been verified for this exact spelling. Use the synthetic reading as a starting point and confirm the intended pronunciation with the family.
Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
EnglishEtymology & source
A surname borrowed from various European languages, all ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *Kōnirād, a male given name.
A male given name, variant of Conrad
Wiktionary: Konrad (English) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
1
eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Konrad in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Konrad
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Conrad♂Bold counsel
- Brad♂Short form of Bradley, Bradford, and other Brad-names
- Kolas♂Cebuano shortening of Nicolas
- Murad♂Desired or wished for
- Sirad·Somali word reading: lamp or light
- Kobe♂Dutch Jacob-name form; also Japanese place-name association
- Koji♂Japanese Kōji; several kanji formations share the reading
- Kokoy♂Koko with oy, from Francisco or Francis
What rhymes with Konrad?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Explore Konrad further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wiktionary contributors — Konrad (English) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Wiktionary: Konrad (opens in a new tab)
Personal-name formation and etymological relationships; imported dictionary account consulted.
- Behind the Name: konrad (opens in a new tab)
Independent onomastic comparison and qualifications to the proposed origin.
- Behind the Name: conrad (opens in a new tab)
Germanic kuoni brave and rat counsel.