Tatiana

Tatiana (or Tatianna, also romanized as Tatyana, Tatjana, Tatijana, etc.) is a female name of Roman origin. The short form of the name in some Slavic languages is Tanya (Russian: Таня).

Tatiana
GenderFemale
Origin
Word/nameRoman
MeaningRoman clan name "Tatius"
Other names
Related namesTanya

Variations

Origin

Tatiana is a female name of Sabine and Latin origin, a feminine derivative of the Sabine-Latin name Tatius. Titus Tatius was the name of a king of the Sabines, an Italic tribe living near Rome, presumably from the 8th to the 1st century BC. Because the Romans met with the Sabines, the name Tatius remained in use in Ancient Rome and during the first centuries of Christianity, as well as its diminutive Tatianus and the feminine Tatiana.

The name then disappeared from Western Europe, but remained prevalent in the Hellenic world (Eastern Roman Empire), and later spread to the Orthodox world, including Russia. It honors the Orthodox Saint Tatiana who was tortured and martyred in the persecutions of Emperor Alexander Severus c. 230 in Rome. Saint Tatiana is also considered a patron saint of Moscow State University in particular and all Russian students in general. Hence, Tatiana Day is celebrated as Students' Day on January 25th.

Tatiana Larina is the heroine of Alexander Pushkin's verse novel Eugene Onegin. The poem was and continues to be extremely popular in Russia.

The character of Tatiana Larina inspired the names of two Romanovs: Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia and her distant cousin Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia.

Notable people

In Christianity
  • Saint Tatiana, 3rd-century Christian martyr

In modeling

In television and films

In other performance arts

In sports

In music

Nobility

In literature and other fiction
  • Tatiana Gritsi-Milliex, Greek writer and journalist
  • Tatyana Tolstaya, modern Russian writer, granddaughter of Aleksei Tolstoy
  • Tatiana Larina, the love interest in Alexander Pushkin's celebrated novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin
  • Tatiana Romanova, James Bond's love interest in the 1963 movie From Russia with Love'
  • Tatiana Taylor, character in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
  • Tatiana Wisla, character in the anime series Last Exile
  • Tatiana de Rosnay, an author of the fiction "Sarah's Key"
  • fr:Tatiana Metanova, character in Paullina Simons "Bronze Horseman"
  • Princess Tatiana, from an episode of The Lion King's Timon and Pumbaa (Once Upon a Timon.)
  • Tatiana, a physical therapist in "Kingdom"
  • EVA, character in Metal Gear Solid 3 who uses the name Tatiana as one of her cover identities
  • Tatianna, a character in Fire Emblem Gaiden. She also appears in the remake of the game, Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.

Others

Notable animal
  • Tatiana (tiger), a San Francisco zoo animal who maimed and killed before being shot and killed

Variations of the name
  • Belarusian: Таццяна (Tatsiana; Łacinka: Tacciana). Diminutive: Таня (Tania), Тацянка (Tatsianka; Łacinka: Tacianka), Танечка (Taniechka; Łacinka: Taniečka)
  • Bulgarian: Татяна (Tatyana), Diminutive: Таня (Tania)
  • Catalan: Tatiana. Diminutive: Tània
  • Czech: Taťána
  • Dutch: Tatjana
  • English: Tatiana. Diminutive: Tanya, Tania, Tatty, Tattie
  • French: Tatiana, Tatianna, Tatyanna, Tatienne (uncommon). Diminutive: Tania, Tanya
  • German: Tatjana
  • Greek: Τατιανή (Tatiani), Τατιάνα (Tatiana)
  • Hungarian: Tatjána
  • Italian: Tatiana
  • Norwegian: Tatjana
  • Polish: Tacjana
  • Portuguese: Tatiana, Tatiane. Diminutive: Tania, Tati
  • Romanian: Tatiana, Tatianna. Diminutive: Tanea
  • Russian: Татьяна (Tatijana). Diminutive: Таня (Tania), Tanichka, Tanechka, Tatianka, Taniusha, Taniushka
  • Serbian Cyrillic: Татјана
  • Slovakian: Tatiana. Diminutive: Táňa
  • Slovene: Tatjana. Diminutive: Tanja. Variants: Tatiana, Tatijana, Tatja, Tatjanca
  • Spanish: Tatiana. Diminutive: Tania, Tati
  • Ukrainian: Тетяна (Tetiana, Tetyana). Diminutive: Tetianka, Tetyanka

See also
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