Thadeous

Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Thadeous has been given to 17 babies in the U.S. since 1979. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1986, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Thadeous, 1994

1 in 619,000

Thadeous over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Thadeous?

Thadeous had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1994, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1994
1 in 619,000
6 of 3,715,972 births
Among boys only
1 in 322,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1994
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
429,287 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Thadeous sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1994 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 429,287 children born in 1994 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Thadeous. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Thadeouss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Thadeous was born before 1986 — so the typical Thadeous is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
35.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
17
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 35.3% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Thadeous rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1986 (6)
Years since peak
39
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#6,643
1986

Spellings of Thadeous

Thadeous is not the most common spelling — Thaddeus is, with 92.1% against Thadeous's 0.06%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Thadeous by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#6,643
1986
Peak year
1986
6 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
1994
All-time count
17
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Thadeous

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Thadeous

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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