Thaddeus

Thaddeus

Pronunciation	/θæˈdiːəs, ˈθædi-/
Gender	Male
Language(s)	Aramaic
Origin
Meaning	"courageous heart" or "courageous" (Greek) "one who praises" (Latin)
Other names
Alternative spelling	Thaddaeus
Nickname(s)	Thad Thady Thad Tad Ted Teddy Todd Toddy See hypocorisms for more
Related names	Tadeusz Tadeo Taddeo Tadas Tadzio

Thaddeus (Greek Θαδδαῖος, Thaddaios, from Aramaic תדי, Taddai / Aday) is a male given name. It means a heart or courageous heart.

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.

Alternate forms

• 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, Tadzio – Italian
• Tadejs – Latvian
• Tadas – Lithuanian
• Thadhewoos – Malayalam
• Tadeusz – Polish
• Tadeu – Portuguese
• Тадэвуш ("Tadevush") – Belarusian
• Фаддей ("Faddey") or Фадей ("Fadey") – Russian
• Фадей ("Fadey") – Ukrainian
• Тадеј (Tadej), Тадија (Tadija) – Serbian
• Tadej – Slovenian
• Tadeo – Spanish
• Tadewos – Amharic
• Other variations: Taddeus, Thaddeus, Tadeus

Biblical figures

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

People

• Thaddeus Bullard, American professional wrestler better known as Titus O'Neil
• Thaddeus Cahill, inventor of the telharmonium
• Thaddeus P. Dryja, American ophthalmologist and geneticist
• Thaddeus Grauer, Austrian art dealer
• Thaddeus B. Hurd, American architect and amateur historian
• Thad Jones (1923–1986), American jazz trumpeter and bandleader
• Thaddeus Kosciuszko, Polish general in the American Revolution.
• Thaddeus Moss (born 1998), American football player
• Thad Lewis (born 1987), American National Football League quarterback
• Thaddeus S. C. Lowe (1831–1913), American Civil War scientist and inventor
• Thad Luckinbill, American actor on the soap opera The Young and the Restless
• Thaddeus McCotter (born 1965), American politician
• Ari Thaddeus Pilichowski, 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 Young, American basketball player for the Indiana Pacers
• Thad Starner, American computer scientist, professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, technical lead of Google Glass
• Thaddeus William Harris (1795-1856) American entomologist, botonist and Librarian

Fictional characters

• Comics:
  • General Thaddeus E. "Thunderbolt" Ross, Marvel comics character, mainly an antagonist of Hulk
  • Doctor Thaddeus Bodog Sivana, DC comics character, an antagonist of Captain Marvel
• Novels:
  • Thaddeus Sholto, character in "The Sign of the Four" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Tadzio, character in novel Death in Venice
• Moving-image works:
  • "The Chief" in the CONTROL spy agency in Get Smart
  • Thaddeus Thatch, paternal grandfather of Milo James Thatch in Atlantis
  • Thad Castle, on television series Blue Mountain State
  • Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture, on the animated series The Venture Bros.

See also

• Taddei
• Tadeo Gomez, an American musician