Tatiana


Tatiana is a female name of Sabine-Roman origin that became widespread in Eastern Europe.

Origin

Tatiana is a feminine, diminutive derivative of the Sabine—and later Latin—name Tatius. King Titus Tatius was the name of a legendary ruler of the Sabines, an Italic tribe living near Rome around the 8th century BC. After the Romans absorbed the Sabines, the name Tatius remained in use in the Roman world, into the first centuries of Christianity, as well as the masculine diminutive Tatianus and its feminine counterpart, Tatiana.
While the name later disappeared from Western Europe including Italy, it remained prevalent in the Hellenic world of the Eastern Roman Empire, and later spread to the Byzantine-influenced Orthodox Church|Orthodox] world, including Russia. In that context, it originally honoured the church Saint Tatiana, who was tortured and martyred in the persecutions of the Roman Emperor Alexander Severus, c. 230 CE. St. Tatiana is patron saint of students in general and in Russia, students are celebrated on Tatiana Day, 25 January. St. Tatiana is also the patron saint of Moscow State University.

Variations

  • Variations of the name

  • Albanian: Tatiana, Tatjana, Tana
  • Belarusian: Таццяна, Diminutive: Таня, Тацянка, Танечка
  • Bulgarian: Татяна, Diminutive: Таня
  • Catalan: Tatiana, Diminutive: Tània
  • Croatian: Tatjana, Tanja
  • Czech: Taťána, Táňa
  • Danish: Tatiana, Tanja
  • Dutch: Tanja, Tatjana, Tania
  • English: Tatiana, Tatyana Diminutive: Tania, Tanya, Tiana, Tianna
  • Estonian: Tatjana
  • Finnish: Tatjana; Diminutive: Taina
  • French: Tatiana, Tatianna, Tatyanna, Tatienne, Diminutive: Tania, Tanya
  • Frisian: Tetje Anna Diminutive: Tet, Tetje, Tanje
  • German: Tatjana, Tanja
  • Greek: Τατιανή, Τατιάνα
  • Hungarian: Tatjána
  • Italian: Tatiana
  • Norwegian: Tatjana
  • Polish: Tacjana
  • Portuguese: Tatiana, Tatiane, Diminutive: Tania, Tati
  • Romanian: Tatiana, Tatianna, Diminutive: Tanea
  • Russian: Татьяна, Diminutive: Таня, Tanichka, Tanechka, Tatianka, Taniusha, Taniushka
  • Serbian Cyrillic: Татјана
  • Slovakian: Tatiana, Diminutive: Táňa
  • Slovene: Tatjana, Diminutive: Tanja, Tjaša; Variants: Tatiana, Tatijana, Tatja, Tatjanca
  • Spanish: Tatiana, Diminutive: Tania, Tati
  • Ukrainian: Тетяна, Diminutive: Tetianka, Tetyanka

    In popular culture

is the heroine of Alexander Pushkin's verse novel Eugene Onegin. The poem was and continues to be 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