Given name & surname
Konrad
“a bold advisor”
Konrad is used as a given name and a surname. One Polish interpretation is “a bold advisor.”
Original PolishKonradek
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Polish interpretation is “a bold advisor.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Polish.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Konrad through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 4,077
- 4,077 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2010
- 94 babies
- 2025
- 75
- #2,015 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −11%
- Easing
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 75 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 2,015 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 11.4% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 94 in 2010. In 2025, Illinois had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (9). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,139 as a first name in 2020; 2,948 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Konrad’s family of names
In German usage, Konrad has a diminutive in Kurt. Konrad shares a linguistic root with Conrad. In German usage, Konrad has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Conrado.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Konrad has relatives in 22 languages. Lines run from its Polish roots to each of them.
Polishwhere Konrad comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 26
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Konradekdiminutive · Polish
- Conradvariant · English, German
- Kurtdiminutive · German
- Corddiminutive · German
- Korridiminutive · Finnish
- Konishort form · bar
- Korshort form · English
- Kunodiminutive · German, Estonian
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- Kahnvariant · English
- Kundaclipped form
- Kuunodiminutive · Estonian
- Chonzshort form · German
- Rathepet form · English
- Kunesdiminutive · English
- Kohrpet form · English
- Kunzdiminutive · German
- Kühnshort form · German
- Kuhnshort form · German
- Conratvariant · German
- Conradtvariant · German
- Kuonratvariant · German
- Kuonradvariant · German
- Cůnradtvariant · German
- Cůnradvariant · German
- Kunradvariant · German
- Chunratvariant · German
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 12
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- ConradoSpanish
- Kortderivative · English
- CorradoItalian
- Kondaderivative · English
- KonrádHungarian, Slovak
- ConradusLatin
- КандратBelarusian
- KoenraadDutch
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People named Konrad
- Konrad AdenauerGerman politician, Chancellor of West Germany (1949–1963), Zentrum and CDU1876–1967
- Konrad LorenzAustrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973 (1903–1989)
- Konrad ZuseGerman computer scientist and engineer (1910 - 1995)
- Konrad Emil BlochGerman American biochemist (1912–2000)
- Conrad II, Holy Roman EmperorHoly Roman Emperor990–1039
- Conrad III of GermanyHohenstaufen dynasty king (r. 1138–1152)1093–1152
- Conrad I of Germanyking of East Francia881–918
- Coenraad Jacob TemminckDutch aristocrat and zoologist (1778–1858)
- Conrad IV of GermanyKing of Germany, Sicily and Jerusalem1228–1254
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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