Obrad

Obrad (Serbian Cyrillic: Обрад) is a Serbian masculine given name. It is rooted in the Serbian verb obradovati (to make happy), rendered as “to make happy” in many sources. The name thus embodies concepts of joy and delight, analogous to names such as Felicity or Letitia in the Western tradition.

Etymology and Slavic Context

Obrad belongs to a category of Slavic names built on a verbal base plus the suffix -ad, reflecting a typical South Slavic naming pattern also seen in Radovan (from radovati se, “to rejoice”) and Verolapostrophyl
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Notable Bearers

The scope of bearers ranges from medieval nobles to 20th‑century professionals. Examples from the extract include:

• Obrad Belošević (1928–1986), a Serbian basketball referee of mid‑century prominence
• Obrad Gluščević (1913–1980), a Yugoslav film director remembered for documentaries
• Obrad Piljak (1933–2013), a Bosnian Serb politician and economist, briefly Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1991
• Obrad Stanojević (1934–2011), a legal historian and professor at the University of Belgrade
• Obrad Zelić (born 1946), a Serbian dental medicine professor
• Obrad veliki tepčija, a medieval Serbian court official, and Obrad Dragoslalić, a nobleman active in the administration of Stefan Dušan