Recaredo

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Recaredo

Say it: reh-kah-REH-doh

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Meaning

Visigothic Germanic Reccared; the second element is rēd 'counsel', the first is uncertain.

Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.

Its wave through time

No birth counts are recorded for this name in the records loaded here: it has been given to fewer than five babies a year, or not at all, since records began.

Through the ages

Used by

Spanish Gothic

Famous bearers

Reccared I, Visigothic king who converted to Catholicism in 587

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Where this comes from

Royal and noble genealogies

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