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Thaddeus (Latin: Thaddaeus, Ancient Greek: Θαδδαῖος, romanized: Thaddaĩos, from Imperial Aramaic: תדי, romanized: Ṯaday) is a masculine given name.

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.

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Thaddeus

Thad

  • Thad Jones (1923-1986), American jazz trumpeter and bandleader
  • Thad Lewis (born 1987), American National Football League quarterback
  • Thad Luckinbill, American actor on the soap opera The Young and the Restless
  • Thad Starner, American computer scientist, professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, technical lead of Google Glass

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