Thaddeus
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Tad, Thad, Thatch, Tee (originally just T but his teachers made him add the "ee")
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Possibly from a Greek word meaning "heart" but more likely the Aramaic form of Theodore (Theodoros) which means gift of God
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Thaddeus was one of the twelve apostles in the New Testament; he is also known as Jude, or Jude Thaddeus.
Jude Thaddeus is the patron saint of lost causes. It is to whom Danny Thomas prayed that he might find work acting, and after whom he named St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Thaddeus (Teddy) Ann Bensimon, daughter of Kelly Killoren and Gilles Bensimon
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- #955 in United States
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