Tadesse as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Tadesse

What is the meaning of the name Tadesse ?

The baby name Tadesse is a Male name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced tah-DEH-seh (approx.).

Tadesse is Amharic in Origin.

Tadesse is an Ethiopian and Eritrean masculine given name from Amharic and Tigrinya, built on the Ethiopian Semitic root ’-d-s (addäsä) “to renew, make new.” In the perfect third-person form täddäse - regularly used as a meaningful name - it conveys “he is renewed” or “he has been made new.” The same root underlies Amharic addis “new,” familiar from Addis Ababa, reinforcing the sense of renewal and fresh beginning.

The name has long-standing use across the Christian highlands and remains common throughout Ethiopia and Eritrea, as well as in diaspora communities where it may also appear as a hereditary surname through patronymic recording. Spelling variants include Tadese and Taddese; short forms Tade or Tadu occur in English. Related feminine formations are sometimes created with a -ch ending (e.g., Tadessech), though Tadesse itself is typically masculine.