indicate the level to which a name has been verified.
Gender Feminine
Meaning & History
Spanish feminine form of Tadeo, Catalan and Romanian feminine form of Tadeu and Polish feminine form of Tadeusz. A famous bearer of this name was Sor Tadea de San Joaquín (1755-1827), born Tadea García de la Huerta, a Chilean Carmelite nun and poet. Her poem Relación de la inundación que hizo el río Mapocho de la ciudad de Santiago de Chile, en el Monasterio de Carmelitas, Titular de San Rafael was published in Lima in late 1783 or early 1784, and is one of the first published poems by a Chilean woman on record.