Tatiana

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

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

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 legendary king of the Sabines, an Italic tribe living near Rome around the 8th century BC. Because the Romans absorbed the Sabines, the name Tatius remained in use in the Roman world and during the first centuries of Christianity, as well as its diminutive Tatianus and the feminine Tatiana.

The name then disappeared from Western Europe including Italy, 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 AD 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.

In popular culture[]

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[citation needed] the names of two Romanovs: Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia and her distant cousin Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia.

Tatiana is also an important non-player character in the 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons adventure book Curse of Strahd.

Notable people[]

In Christianity[]

  • Saint Tatiana, 3rd-century Christian martyr

Nobility[]

In modeling[]

In television and films[]

In music[]

In other performance arts[]

In sports[]

In literature and other fiction[]

  • Tatiana de Rosnay, an author of the fiction "Sarah's Key"
  • Tatiana Gritsi-Milliex, Greek writer and journalist
  • Tatiana Larina, the love interest in Alexander Pushkin's celebrated novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin
  • fr:Tatiana Metanova, character in Paullina Simons "Bronze Horseman"
  • 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, a physical therapist in "Kingdom"
  • Tatiana, the main antagonist of the video game No Straight Roads.
  • Tatianna, a character in Fire Emblem Gaiden. She also appears in the remake of the game, Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.
  • Tatyana Tolstaya, modern Russian writer, granddaughter of Aleksei Tolstoy
  • Princess Tatiana, from an episode of The Lion King's Timon and Pumbaa (Once Upon a Timon.)
  • Queen Tatiana is a supporting character of the cancelled Nickelodeon sitcom The Other Kingdom in which is ruler of the fairies of the fairy realm of Athenia. She is mother to the lead character, Princess Astral.* EVA, character in Metal Gear Solid 3 who uses the name Tatiana as one of her cover identities

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: Tanja, Tatjana (uncommon), Tania (uncommon now, only in Belgium)
  • English: Tatiana, Diminutive: Tanya, Tania, Tatty, Tattie
  • French: Tatiana, Tatianna, Tatyanna, Tatienne (uncommon), Diminutive: Tania, Tanya
  • Frisian: Tetje Anna (uncommon) Diminutive: Tet, Tetje, Tanje
  • German: Tatjana, Tanja
  • 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[]

  • Tatian (disambiguation)
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