Across the world, ראד (Rud 
, Rudd , ראד 
) is quite a common largely boy's, but uncommonly female given name. The given name ראד is characteristic of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it is quite a rare dominantly masculine, but infrequently female name, Israel, where it is quite a rare predominantly masculine, but very seldom girly name, and the Dominican Republic, where it is a rare female name. In absolute terms, it is the most numerous in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, India, and Indonesia. More prevalently, ראד is the last name as well as the forename.