Thad

Where Thad comes from

Clipping of Thaddeus.
— Wiktionary's entry for Thad
  • 1 syllable
Thad through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #809 among boys, with 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1937
    Thad Cochran born
    United States Senator from Mississippi
  3. 1967
    Peak, #401
    365 babies named Thad, the most in any year.
  4. 1974
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #602.
  5. 1975
    Thad Luckinbill born
    American actor and film producer
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given names Thaddeus and Thaddaeus, sometimes also used as a formal given name.
Namesakes
  • Thad Cochran · United States Senator from Mississippi, 1937–2019
  • Thad Luckinbill · American actor and film producer, born 1975
  • Thad Jones · American jazz trumpeter, 1923–1986
  • Thad Allen · Commandant of the United States Coast Guard, born 1949
  • Thad Weber · American baseball player, born 1984

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.