Thaddeus

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name	Thaddeus
pronunciation
gender	Male
language	Aramaic
alternative spelling	Thaddaeus
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• Thad
• Thady
• Tad
• Ted
• Teddy
• Todd
• Toddy
• See hypocorisms for more | related names = {{Plainlist|
• Tadeusz
• Taddei
• Tadeo
• Tadeu
• Taddeo
• Tadas
• Tadei
• Tadey
• Faddey | name day = | footnotes =

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 ("Tadevush") – 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

References

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References

1. "Frequently Occurring Male First Names from Census 1990". [[United States Census Bureau]].
2. "2021".
3. "Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής :: Αλφαβητική Αναζήτηση βίων".
4. "Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής :: Άγιος Θαδδαίος".
5. "Апостол Иу́да Иаковлев (Левве́й, Фадде́й), брат Господень".
6. "Апостол от 70-ти Фадде́й Едесский, Бейрутский, епископ".
7. "Преподобный Фадде́й Луховской".
8. "Священномученик Фадде́й (Успенский), Тверской, архиепископ".
9. "Преподобный Фадде́й Степанцминдский".
10. "Преподобный Фадде́й Студит".

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