Ctirad Explained

Ctirad
Gender:	male
Meaning:	čest / chest ("honour") + rad ("joy, care, advice")
Origin:	Slavic
Variant Forms:	Ctirada
Related Names:	Ctibor, Česlav
Footnotes:	http://www.behindthename.com/name/ctirad

Ctirad (in Czech pronounced as /ˈtscɪrat/) (Polish: Czcirad) is a Slavic origin male given name derived from the elements: čest / chest "honour" and rad "care, joy". Possibly meaning "he honours advice" or "worshiping advice".

Name Days

Czech: 16 January

Nicknames

Ctishek, Ctisha, Radek, Ctirek, Rado, Ches

Famous bearers

• In Czech mythology (as told in The Maidens' War), the nobleman Ctirad was killed by Šárka and the other rebel maidens
• Ctirad Benáček (1924–1999), Czech basketball player
• Ctirad Jungmann (born 1959), Czech rower
• Ctirad Kohoutek (1929–2011), Czech composer, music theorist, and pedagogue
• Ctirad Mašín, 1950s Czech resistance fighter
• Ctirad Ovčáčík (born 1984), Czech ice hockey player
• Ctirad Uher, Czech physicist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor

Another

• Ctirad - poem by Julius Zeyer (complete text: here)

External links

• Ctirad on Behind The Name