Thaddaeus
#7,679 for boys in 2025, 10 births
- Peak · boys
- 1978 · 21 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,045since 1924
Thaddaeus over time
Rank among boys' names. Thaddaeus has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,679 | 10 |
| 2024 | #5,659 | 16 |
| 2023 | #5,927 | 15 |
| 2022 | #6,828 | 12 |
| 2021 | #4,494 | 22 |
| 2020 | #4,540 | 21 |
| 2019 | #6,104 | 14 |
| 2018 | #4,226 | 24 |
| 2017 | #4,466 | 22 |
| 2016 | #4,776 | 20 |
| 2015 | #5,507 | 16 |
| 2014 | #3,891 | 26 |
| 2013 | #4,804 | 19 |
| 2012 | #4,390 | 22 |
| 2011 | #4,822 | 19 |
| 2010 | #4,678 | 20 |
| 2009 | #5,800 | 15 |
| 2008 | #3,646 | 29 |
| 2007 | #4,640 | 20 |
| 2006 | #4,865 | 18 |
| 2005 | #3,389 | 29 |
| 2004 | #4,005 | 22 |
| 2003 | #4,815 | 16 |
| 2002 | #3,349 | 26 |
| 2001 | #3,143 | 28 |
| 2000 | #3,640 | 22 |
| 1999 | #4,341 | 16 |
| 1998 | #3,486 | 21 |
| 1997 | #3,351 | 21 |
| 1996 | #3,021 | 24 |
| 1995 | #3,432 | 19 |
| 1994 | #3,109 | 22 |
| 1993 | #3,042 | 22 |
| 1992 | #3,604 | 17 |
| 1991 | #2,915 | 22 |
| 1990 | #3,467 | 17 |
| 1989 | #2,545 | 25 |
| 1988 | #3,350 | 15 |
| 1987 | #2,942 | 17 |
| 1986 | #3,268 | 14 |
| 1985 | #2,226 | 24 |
| 1984 | #2,292 | 22 |
| 1983 | #4,141 | 9 |
| 1982 | #2,831 | 16 |
| 1981 | #2,898 | 15 |
| 1980 | #2,536 | 19 |
| 1979 | #3,168 | 13 |
| 1978 | #2,205 | 21 |
| 1977 | #2,910 | 14 |
| 1976 | #2,946 | 13 |
| 1975 | #2,902 | 13 |
| 1974 | #2,549 | 15 |
| 1973 | #3,013 | 11 |
| 1972 | #3,344 | 9 |
| 1971 | #3,658 | 8 |
| 1970 | #3,282 | 9 |
| 1969 | #3,595 | 7 |
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| 1948 | #3,316 | 6 |
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| 1924 | #3,867 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Thaddaeus! It came in at #3,867, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1925–1947, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Thaddaeus
- 2,020 spots since 2024 (#5,659 → #7,679)
- 3,139 spots since 2020 (#4,540 → #7,679)
- 2,172 spots since 2015 (#5,507 → #7,679)
- Debuted 1924
- Peaked 1978 at #2,205 (21 births)
- Births halved by 1983, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 68,873 boys born in 2005 were named Thaddaeus (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 170,808 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,205 in 1978, was only 1 in 78,183 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 21.5% of all boys named Thaddaeus (225) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 6 | #3,867 (1924) | #3,867 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 6 | #3,316 (1948) | #3,316 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 7 | #3,595 (1969) | #3,595 |
| 1970s | 126 | #2,205 (1978) | #2,998 |
| 1980s | 176 | #2,226 (1985) | #2,903 |
| 1990s | 201 | #2,915 (1991) | #3,377 |
| 2000s | 225 | #3,143 (2001) | #4,129 |
| 2010s | 202 | #3,891 (2014) | #4,766 |
| 2020s | 96 | #4,494 (2021) | #5,855 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Thaddaeus in 1924
Top boys' names in 1924
More about 1924
boys
1,132,742 boys got a published name in 1924; 1 in 188,790 of them was named Thaddaeus, which outranked 22.2% of the 4,970 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,505Yoshimi7
- #3,505Zachariah7
- #3,505Zenas7
- #3,867Thaddaeus6
- #3,867Abdon6
- #3,867Abran6
- #3,867Abron6
- #4,347Ab5
- #4,347Abby5
- #4,347Abert5
Tied with 479 names at #3,867; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.