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Morad

Boys' name

Form of Murad

Morad has been given to 171 babies in the U.S. since 1977. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1979, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Morad, 2020

1 in 477,000

Morad over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Morad: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Murad

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Morad means

Morad is a form of Murad.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Morad is used in Persian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Morad → Murad. The family’s meaning is “wish, desire, wanted”, recorded in the naming reference for Murad.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Murad.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 171 boys were recorded with the name Morad between 1977 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1979; its best national rank was #4,287 in 1979.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Morad?

Morad had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 477,000
7 of 3,342,313 births
Among boys only
1 in 247,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
330,960 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Morad sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 330,960 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Morad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Morads were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Morad was born before 1998 — so the typical Morad is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
57.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
171
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 31.6% of all recorded uses (54).

Is Morad rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1979 (9)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,287
1979

Spellings of Morad

Morad is not the most common spelling — Brad is, with 38.2% against Morad's 0.08%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Morad around the world

Where Morad ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    1954–2025
    #5,783
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2018–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1986–1986
    #460
    in 1986

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Morad by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,287
1979
Peak year
1979
9 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
171
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Morad

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MoritzMordyMoryMoroccoMorisMorioMortyVaradMorryMorseMoriAradMordcheMortMoreyMouradMoranMoriahMordchaMorgonMorrieMoroniMorellRad

Sibling names for Morad

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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