Thaddeus Explained

Thaddeus
Gender:	Male
Language:	Aramaic
Alternative Spelling:	Thaddaeus
Nickname:	Thad Thady Tad Ted Teddy Todd Toddy See hypocorisms for more
Related Names:	Tadeusz Taddei Tadeo Tadeu Taddeo Tadas Tadei Tadey Faddey

Thaddeus (Latin: Thaddaeus, Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Θαδδαῖος|Thaddaĩos, from Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE);; Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE);: תדי|Ṯaday) 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 most popular.^[1]

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, Tadzio – 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

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^{[2] [3]}

• Apostle Jude son of James (Lebbaeus, Thaddeus), brother of Jesus,^[4]
• Thaddeus of Edessa, one of the Seventy Disciples, bishop of Beirut,^[5]
• Venerable Thaddeus of Lukh,^[6]
• New Hieromartyr Archbishop Thaddeus (Uspensky) of Tver,^[7]
• Venerable Thaddeus of Stepantsminda,^[8]
• Venerable Thaddeus the Confessor of the Studion,^[9]
• Saints Thaddeus.^[10]

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 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
• 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 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 "" by Antonio Tabucchi
• Thaddeus Caractacus Evillard “Pecker” Bird, major Character in the Starbuck Chronicle by Bernard Cornwell
• "The Chief" in the CONTROL spy agency in Get Smart
• Thaddeus Thatch, paternal grandfather of Milo James Thatch in
• 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
• 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

See also

• Taddei
• Tadeo Gomez, an American musician

Notes and References

1. Web site: Frequently Occurring Male First Names from Census 1990 . . 2011-01-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100121020935/http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/data/1990surnames/dist.male.first . 2010-01-21 .
2. Web site: 2021. 2021-10-07. calendar.rop.ru.
3. Web site: Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής :: Αλφαβητική Αναζήτηση βίων. 2021-10-07. www.saint.gr.
4. Web site: Апостол Иу́да Иаковлев (Левве́й, Фадде́й), брат Господень. 2021-10-07. azbyka.rudays. ru.
5. Web site: Апостол от 70-ти Фадде́й Едесский, Бейрутский, епископ. 2021-10-07. azbyka.rudays. ru.
6. Web site: Преподобный Фадде́й Луховской. 2021-10-07. azbyka.rudays. ru.
7. Web site: Священномученик Фадде́й (Успенский), Тверской, архиепископ. 2021-10-07. azbyka.rudays. ru.
8. Web site: Преподобный Фадде́й Степанцминдский. 2021-10-07. azbyka.rudays. ru.
9. Web site: Преподобный Фадде́й Студит. 2021-10-07. azbyka.rudays. ru.
10. Web site: Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής :: Άγιος Θαδδαίος. 2021-10-07. www.saint.gr.