Conrad is a boy's name of German origin meaning “bold.” In 2024 it was given to 654 boys in the United States.
Conrad at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
German
Meaning
“bold”
Pronunciation
/ˈkɑnɹæd/
About the name Conrad
Conrad belongs to the German tradition. Its meaning — “bold” — is the sense carried by its German roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Conrad first appears in Social Security records in 1880. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #213 in 1931, and in 2024 654 babies received the name — 38,509 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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