Tadeusza
Only around 200 women hold this spelling of Tadeusz, and no girls are being given it now, so meeting one would stick with you. Hebrew at root, it carries a meaning Poles fastened on later: courageous heart.
Tadeusza Pronunciation
Tadeusza is pronounced tah-de-OO-shah (/tadɛˈuʂa/).
What Tadeusza means
Where Tadeusza comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Tadeusza sits in the family of Tadeusz, its fuller variant, and Tadek, the diminutive Poles reach for in daily speech. Its roots go back to Hebrew, and it entered Polish through the apostle the Church calls Juda Tadeusz, known in English as Saint Jude Thaddeus. The meaning Poles now give it, odważny and serdeczny, a courageous heart, was fastened on later. It was not present in the first Hebrew form.
Two Tadeuszes matter here. Tadeusz Kościuszko, a military engineer, fought in the American Revolution and led the Polish uprising of 1794. Adam Mickiewicz later handed the name to the hero of Pan Tadeusz, his verse epic of 1834, which opens with a longing for Lithuania.
Saint Jude Thaddeus is remembered on 28 October, and Poland keeps that day as the imieniny for the name. A boy listed as Tadek in the school register signs the fuller Tadeusz on official forms at the urząd. The short meaning stays close to him: odważny and serdeczny, a courageous heart.
How many people are named Tadeusza
1 in 109436 women in Poland is named Tadeusza. 206 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2190 among female names.
Tadeusza as a middle name
Tadeusza is a first name for 206 women in Poland and a middle name for another 76, a 73/27 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 767th, between Stanislawa (76) and Amina (75).
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#765 Romina76
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#766 Stanislawa76
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#767 Tadeusza76
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#768 Amina75
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#769 Amira75