Baby name
FADING
🇨🇿 🇵🇱 Radek
/RAH · dek/
Meaning
“Glad or willing”
Czech and Polish diminutive of Slavic names beginning with Rad-, meaning glad or willing; compact and punchy, it functions as both a nickname and a full given name.
Nicknames
none
Vibe
strong
How it ages.
Solid mid-century Czech name; aging but not embarrassingly so, still used across generations.
The cultural moment.
Steady usage in Czech Republic and Slovakia throughout the 20th century; gradually fading in new births since the 1990s.