Ctirad
# Ctirad

Ctirad (pronounced) (Polish: Czcirad) is a Slavic origin male given name derived from the elements: čest / chest "honour" and rad "care, joy". Maybe, it means "he honours advice" or "worshiping advice".

## Name Days

Czech: 16 January

## Nicknames

Ctishek, Ctisha, Radek, Ctirek, Rado, Ches

## Famous bearers

* In Czech mythology (as told in The Maidens' War), the nobleman Ctirad was killed by Šárka and the other rebel maidens
* Ctirad Benáček (1924–1999), Czech basketball player
* Ctirad Jungmann (born 1959), Czech rower
* Ctirad Kohoutek (1929–2011), Czech composer, music theorist, and pedagogue
* Ctirad Mašín, 1950s Czech resistance fighter
* Ctirad Ovčáčík (born 1984), Czech ice hockey player
* Ctirad Uher, Czech physicist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor

## Another

* Ctirad - poem by Julius Zeyer (complete text: here)
