Thaddeus — #848 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Thaddeus

The Social Security Administration has registered 25,739 babies named Thaddeus between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Thaddeus currently holds the #848 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 416 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Thaddeus performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 3,090 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Thaddeus shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 2,229 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Thaddeus in 45 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Thaddeus in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 25,739 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.