first name
THADDEUS
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 15,514 people named Thaddeus, 61.2% reported their origin as White, 27.3% as Black and 4.7% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are male (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Thaddeus peaked in 2016, when 416 babies got the name.
At least 26,089 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Thaddeus by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1910s, when it ranked #762. The largest share of babies named Thaddeus, 16.1%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Thaddeus is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Thaddeus has been most common in Louisiana (2.5×), Illinois (2.1×), and Michigan (1.9×), and least common in Arkansas (0.15×).
20,507 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Thaddeus, most common first.
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