Name «Nerad»

The name Nerad is a Slavic masculine personal name formed with the negation prefix "ne-" from the root "-rad-", which means "happy" or "to rejoice". This root is found in other Slavic names such as Radomir, Radoslav, and Milorad. In Ukraine, the name Nerad has been recorded since the 16th century. Medieval records of this name are most common in Serbia, the Czech Republic, and Poland. In Ukraine, the name Nerad has given rise to derived surnames, for example, in 1649, the well-known Cossack of the Bilocherkivsky regiment Ivan Neradenko, and in 1669 – the centurion of the Pereyaslavsky regiment Andriy Nerada.