Barad (name) explained

Barad can refer to a number of people, places, and things. It occurs as a family name with multiple ethnic sources and meanings (he|ברד, ru|Барад). It was ranked # 88,149 in popularity in the 1990 US census.^[1] Variants of the surname include: Barada, Barade, Baradi, Baradt, Barat, Bard, Brar, Beirad, Barrett, Albarado, and Al-Barad'i.

• Barad is a Jewish Ashkenazic name derived from the Hebrew patronymic phrase Ben Rabi David "son of Rabbi David".Z^[2]
• Barad is a Jewish Sephardic name of unknown origin.^[3]
• Barada is an Arabic toponymic name, from a place name meaning cold (for example, the Barada River in Syria).^[4]

People

A partial list of people named Barad or a variant thereof:

• Jashubhai Dhanabhai Barad, member of the 14th Lok Sabha (parliament) of India.
• Jill Barad, former CEO of Mattel Inc.
• Karen Barad, feminist philosopher and theoretical physicist.

Notes and References

1. https://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/names_files.html US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring First Names and Surnames from the 1990 Census
2. Hanks, Patrick, Dictionary of American Family Names, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
3. http://www.sephardim.com/namelist.shtml?mode=form&from=A&to=C Sephardim.com
4. http://www.earthsearch.net/featureIndex.php?type=int&start=457887&end=458000 Earthsearch.net