as a Last Name
- 15,863
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Rader
Meaning & Origins
German: 1. occupational name for a wheelwright, from an agent derivative of Middle High German rat ‘wheel’. 2. (Räder): metonymic occupational name for a flour sifter or mill hand, from Middle High German reder ‘sieve’. 3. occasionally an occupational name from Middle Low German rader ‘adviser’. 4. from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements rād, rāt ‘advice’, ‘counsel’ + heri ‘army’. 5. Americanized spelling of German Röder (see Roeder).
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 15,863
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
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- has the most people named Rader per capita
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