Girl · Latin
Tatiana
Say it: tah-TYAH-nah
Meaning
From the Roman family name Tatius, borne by the Sabine king Titus Tatius; the meaning of Tatius itself is unknown.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Long thought a peasant name in Russia, it became fashionable after Pushkin gave it to the heroine of Eugene Onegin (1825-1832).
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1990s
In the United States
- 34,150 babies given this name since 1915
- At its height in 1999, about 1 in 1,200 girls
- 217 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- Ancient Rome750 BC to AD 476
- The Early Middle Ages400 to 800
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
Early ChristianLatinRussianUkrainianSerbianRomanianBulgarianPolishCzechAfrican AmericanAmerican
The family of the name
Other spellings: Tatyana, Татьяна, Tanya, Tatianna
| French | Tatiana |
|---|---|
| Spanish | Tatiana |
| Italian | Tatiana |
| German | Tatjana |
| Polish | Tacjana |
| Russian | Tatyana |
| Ukrainian | Tetyana |
| Ukrainian | Tetiana |
Famous bearers
- Tatiana of Rome, early martyr
- Grand Duchess Tatiana of Russia
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Where this comes from
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- Calendars of saints and name days
- Well-known works of literature
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.