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Thad vs Thaddius

American parents have registered 8,224 Thads since 1880, against 593 Thaddiuses. Thad is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Thad against Thaddius, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Thad Thaddius

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Thad has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2020, when Thad had 8 and Thaddius had 7.

Side by side

  Thad Thaddius
Total US births 8,224593
Most in one year 36518
Babies in 2025 8under 5
Estimated living today 5,600530
Median age today 5435
Peak year 19671989
Best rank 401st boys3,205th boys
Rank in 2025 8,910thunranked
First recorded 18801916
Girls / boys 5 / 8,2190 / 593

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Thads alive today are over 54; half the Thaddiuses are over 35. That is 19 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Thad and Thaddius.