Chad

Meanings

Proper Noun

• A male given name from Old English. Also a modern nickname for Charles, Chadwick and similar-sounding names
• The British version of the "Kilroy was here" graffiti.
• country Central Africa (region) .
• lake Central Africa (region).

Noun

• A very handsome, usually tall, man whom women find sexually attractive; at times seen as an alpha male of a group.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• Chadlite
• gigachad

Broader meaning words

• Subsahara

Origin

• From Old English Ċeadda, of obscure meaning; name of a seventh-century Anglo-Saxon saint, revived in the 20th century.
• The sense of “alpha male” originates from a stereotype in Anglosphere cultures that men with such a name tend to bear that temperament.
• Believed to be from Kanuri tsade. The country is named after the lake.