Thaddeus (, , from ) is a masculine given name.

As of the 1990 Census, Thaddeus was the 611th most popular male name in the United States, while Thad, its diminutive version, was the 846th.

Alternate forms

  • Taco – Dutch
  • Tadeu (ind. Tade) – Albanian
  • Թադէոս ("Tadeos"), Թադևոս ("Tadevos"), Թաթոս ("Tatos") – Armenian
  • Tadija – Croatian
  • Tadeáš – Czech
  • Thaddée – French
  • თადეოზი (tadeozi) Georgian
  • Thaddäus – German
  • Tádé – Hungarian
  • Tadáias (Biblical), Tadhg (given name) – Irish
  • Taddeo – Italian
  • Taddeus (Biblical; old translation), Taday (modern translation) – Turkish
  • Tadejs – Latvian
  • Tadas – Lithuanian
  • Тадеј (Tadej) - Macedonian
  • Thadhewoos – Malayalam
  • Tadeusz – Polish
  • Tadeu – Portuguese
  • Тадэвуш (Tadevuš) – Belarusian
  • Фаддей ("Faddey") or Фадей ("Fadey") – Russian
  • Тадей ("Тadey") – Ukrainian
  • Тадеј (Tadej), Тадија (Tadija) – Serbian
  • Tadej – Slovenian
  • Tadeo – Spanish
  • Tadewos – Amharic
  • ததேயு (Thathéyu/Dhathéyu) - Tamil

Biblical figures

  • Thaddaeus, usually identified as Jude the Apostle, one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus
  • Thaddeus of Edessa, one of the Seventy Disciples

Orthodox saints

References:

  • Apostle Jude son of James (Lebbaeus, Thaddeus), brother of Jesus,
  • Thaddeus of Edessa, one of the Seventy Disciples, bishop of Beirut,
  • Venerable Thaddeus of Lukh,
  • New Hieromartyr Archbishop Thaddeus (Uspensky) of Tver,
  • Venerable Thaddeus of Stepantsminda
  • Venerable Thaddeus the Confessor of the Studion

People

Thaddeus

  • Thaddeus of Naples (fl. 1291), crusade chronicler
  • Thaddeus (bishop of Caffa), 14th-century Armenian Catholic friar and bishop
  • Thaddeus Bullard, American professional wrestler better known as Titus O'Neil
  • Thaddeus Cahill (1867–1934), American inventor of the telharmonium
  • Thaddeus P. Dryja, American ophthalmologist and geneticist
  • Thaddeus Grauer, Austrian art dealer
  • Thaddeus William Harris (1795–1856), American entomologist, botanist and librarian
  • Thaddäus Huber (1742–1798), Austrian violinist and composer
  • Thaddeus B. Hurd, American architect and amateur historian
  • Thaddeus Kirkland (born 1955), American politician
  • Thaddeus Kosciuszko, Polish general in the American Revolution
  • Thaddeus S. C. Lowe (1831–1913), American Civil War scientist and inventor
  • Thaddeus Matthews (1958–2025), American pastor and broadcaster
  • Thaddeus McCotter (born 1965), American politician
  • Thaddeus Moss (born 1998), American football player
  • Thaddeus O'Sullivan (born 1947), Irish film director, cinematographer, and screenwriter
  • Ari Thaddeus Pilichowski, 20th-century French-British linguist and conference interpreter, better known as Teddy Pilley
  • Thaddeus Coleman Pound (1833–1914), Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin and grandfather of Ezra Pound
  • Thaddeus Stevens (1792–1868), leader of the Radical Republicans during the American Civil War and Reconstruction
  • Thaddeus Ward (born 1997), American baseball player
  • Thaddäus Weigl (1776–1844), Austrian composer and music publisher
  • Thaddeus A. Wood (1852–1936), American politician and Mississippi state senator
  • Thaddeus Young, American basketball player for the Toronto Raptors
  • Thaddeus Joy, boat captain of "Seneca Chief" on Erie Canal.

Thad

  • Thad Jones (1923–1986), American jazz trumpeter and bandleader
  • Thad Lewis (born 1987), American National Football League quarterback
  • Thad Luckinbill, American actor on the soap opera The Young and the Restless
  • Thad Starner, American computer scientist, professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, technical lead of Google Glass

Fictional characters

  • General Thaddeus E. "Thunderbolt" Ross, Marvel Comics character, mainly an antagonist of Hulk
  • Agent John Thaddeus Myers, character in Hellboy (2004) by Guillermo Del Toro
  • Doctor Thaddeus Bodog Sivana, DC Comics character, an antagonist of Captain Marvel
  • Thaddeus Mcann, character in the novel Bog Child by Siobhab Dowd
  • Thaddeus Sholto, character in The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Tadzio, character in the film and novella Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
  • Thaddeus Beaumont in The Dark Half by Stephen King
  • Tadeus, character in "Requiem: a Halucination" by Antonio Tabucchi
  • Thaddeus Caractacus Evillard "Pecker" Bird, major character in The Starbuck Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell
  • "The Chief" in the CONTROL spy agency in Get Smart
  • Thaddeus Thatch, paternal grandfather of Milo James Thatch in Atlantis: The Lost Empire
  • Thaddeus Bile, a character in the 2001 Disney/Pixar animated film Monsters, Inc.
  • Thaddeus, character in the film Your Highness
  • Dr. Thaddeus Morocco, an antagonist in the animated series Transformers: Rescue Bots
  • Thad Castle, on television series Blue Mountain State
  • Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture, on the animated series The Venture Bros.
  • Thaddeus Bradley, in the movie Now You See Me
  • Brother Thaddeus, in the film Heaven Help Us
  • Lieutenant/Captain Thaddeus Harris in the film Police Academy
  • Captain Thadeus, of the Osiris, in the Final Flight of the Osiris in The Animatrix

See also

  • Addai
  • Taddei
  • Tadeo Gomez, an American musician

References

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