Thaddaeus

#7,679 for boys in 2025, 10 births

Peak · boys
1978 · 21 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,045
since 1924

Thaddaeus over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Thaddaeus has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202005peak #2,205, 1978boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#7,67910
2024#5,65916
2023#5,92715
2022#6,82812
2021#4,49422
2020#4,54021
2019#6,10414
2018#4,22624
2017#4,46622
2016#4,77620
2015#5,50716
2014#3,89126
2013#4,80419
2012#4,39022
2011#4,82219
2010#4,67820
2009#5,80015
2008#3,64629
2007#4,64020
2006#4,86518
2005#3,38929
2004#4,00522
2003#4,81516
2002#3,34926
2001#3,14328
2000#3,64022
1999#4,34116
1998#3,48621
1997#3,35121
1996#3,02124
1995#3,43219
1994#3,10922
1993#3,04222
1992#3,60417
1991#2,91522
1990#3,46717
1989#2,54525
1988#3,35015
1987#2,94217
1986#3,26814
1985#2,22624
1984#2,29222
1983#4,1419
1982#2,83116
1981#2,89815
1980#2,53619
1979#3,16813
1978#2,20521
1977#2,91014
1976#2,94613
1975#2,90213
1974#2,54915
1973#3,01311
1972#3,3449
1971#3,6588
1970#3,2829
1969#3,5957
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First appearance
1924

The first year at least five boys were named Thaddaeus! It came in at #3,867, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1925–1947, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Thaddaeus is popular in 2005

No state had 5 or more boys named Thaddaeus in 2005, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Thaddaeus
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 2,020 spots since 2024 (#5,659 → #7,679)
  • 3,139 spots since 2020 (#4,540 → #7,679)
  • 2,172 spots since 2015 (#5,507 → #7,679)
Rise & fade · boys
54 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1924
  • Peaked 1978 at #2,205 (21 births)
  • Births halved by 1983, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 68,873
  • Highest: 1 in 68,873 boys born in 2005 were named Thaddaeus (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 170,808 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,205 in 1978, was only 1 in 78,183 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 21.5% of all boys named Thaddaeus (225) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1920s6#3,867 (1924)#3,867
1930s0——
1940s6#3,316 (1948)#3,316
1950s0——
1960s7#3,595 (1969)#3,595
1970s126#2,205 (1978)#2,998
1980s176#2,226 (1985)#2,903
1990s201#2,915 (1991)#3,377
2000s225#3,143 (2001)#4,129
2010s202#3,891 (2014)#4,766
2020s96#4,494 (2021)#5,855

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Thaddaeus in 2005

boys
#3,389
29 births · 1 in 68,873 boys

Top boys' names in 2005

  1. #1Jacob25,851
  2. #2Michael23,828
  3. #3Joshua23,261
  4. #4Matthew21,483
  5. #5Ethan21,318
  6. #6Andrew20,742
  7. #7Daniel20,236
  8. #8Anthony19,387
  9. #9Joseph19,241
  10. #10Christopher19,174
  11. #3,389Thaddaeus29
More about 2005

boys

1,997,305 boys got a published name in 2005; 1 in 68,873 of them was named Thaddaeus, which outranked 74.7% of the 13,370 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Thaddaeus
  1. #3,319Yousif30
  2. #3,319Yuri30
  3. #3,319Zakk30
  4. #3,389Thaddaeus29
  5. #3,389Abdelrahman29
  6. #3,389Adain29
  7. #3,389Amador29
  8. #3,447Aaren28
  9. #3,447Adal28
  10. #3,447Aeneas28

Tied with 57 names at #3,389; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2004
Risers
  1. ↑ 3,722Talan#4,264 → #542
  2. ↑ 1,048Carmine#1,934 → #886
  3. ↑ 727Leland#1,335 → #608
  4. ↑ 528Amare#1,159 → #631
  5. ↑ 525Braylen#1,359 → #834
Fallers
  1. ↓ 817Madison#857 → #1,674
  2. ↓ 783Andon#865 → #1,648
  3. ↓ 406Kanye#486 → #892
  4. ↓ 379Jakobe#846 → #1,225
  5. ↓ 359Koda#930 → #1,289

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2005 →