Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Morad is a form of Murad. Murad comes from Ottoman Turkish, and ultimately from Arabic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1977. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Morad through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 171
- 171 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1979
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −100%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 499 as a first name in 2020; 753 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.
Morad’s family of names
In English usage, Morad as a surname has a related form in MURAD.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Morad
- Morad MohammadiOlympic wrestlerborn 1980
- Murad Abu MuradHamas senior commander and head of air operations1978–2023
- Murad FatiyevAzeri judokaborn 1999
- Morad MostafaEgyptian film director and screenwriter (born 1988)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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