The name Thaddeus derived from the Greek Thaddaios, which is based on the Aramaic name Thaddai. Its meaning is not known, it possibly stands for ‘heart’.
Thaddeus is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Thaddeus isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Thaddeus ranks 696. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Thaddeus. In the entire USA, approximately 19,708 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Thaddeus. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
The name Thaddeus derived from the Greek Thaddaios, which is based on the Aramaic name Thaddai. Its meaning is not known, it possibly stands for ‘heart’.
Aramaic was spoken... in what is now Israel, Turkey, Syria and Iran and was the mother tongue of Jesus of Nazareth.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter T is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names. That’s because 6.3% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.
With eight letters, the name Thaddeus is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 6.3% of all boys' names that begin with the letter T, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Thomas is the boys’ name starting with T, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Thaddeus and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Thaddeus, you can simply say:
Tiger
Hat
Apple
Dinosaur
Dinosaur
Elephant
Unicorn
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Thaddeus
Thaddeus
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
T
H
A
D
D
E
U
S
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
T
H
A
D
D
E
U
S
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Thaddeus sounds like this:
