Thaddeus

Where Thaddeus comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Thaddeus.

  • Ancient Greek
Thaddeus through the years
  1. 1792
    Thaddeus Stevens born
    American statesman
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #526 among boys, with 12 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1918
    Peak, #307
    328 babies named Thaddeus, its best rank.
  4. 1929
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #461.
  5. 1988
    Thaddeus Young born
    American basketball player
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Ancient Greek, of common usage, variant of Thaddaeus.
Namesakes
  • Thaddeus Stevens · American statesman, 1792–1868
  • Thaddeus Young · American basketball player, born 1988
  • Thaddeus of Edessa · Christian saint and one of the seventy disciples of Jesus, 100–50
  • Thaddeus McCotter · American politician, born 1965
  • Thaddeus Cahill · American inventor, 1867–1934

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.