Tatiana

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Tatiana
An icon of Saint Tatiana.
Pronunciation	taht ee AHN ah
Gender	Female
Origin
Word/Name	Roman
Meaning	Roman clan name "Tatius", "Fairy queen"
Other names
Related names	Tanya

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Tatiana (Russian: Татьяна; also romanized as Tatyana, Tatjana, Tatianna, Tatijana, etc.) is a Slavic female name. The short form of the name is Tanya (Russian: Таня).

Origin

Tatiana is a female name of Sabine and Latin origin, feminine diminutive of the Sabine-Latin name Tatius.
Titus Tatius was the name of a king of the Sabines, a people living near Rome in VIIIth century b.C.
The Romans having met with the Sabines, Tatius remained in use in Ancient Rome and during the first centuries of Christianity, as well as its diminutive Tatianus and the feminine Tatiana.
Il then disappeared in Western Europe, but remained in the hellenic world, and later in the orthodox world, including Russia.
The name honors 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 students. Hence, Tatiana Day is now an official school holiday for students in Russia.

Tatiana in fictions; impact of litterature

Tatiana Larina is the heroine of Alexander Pushkin's celebrated novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin. In the poem Pushkin suggests that the name Tatiana was more common for peasants than for well-born women in the early 19th century. The poem was and continues to be extremely popular in Russia.
The character of Tatiana Larina inspired the names of two Romanovs: Princess Tatiana Konstantinovna of Russia and her distant cousin Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia.

Notable people

In Christianity:

• Saint Tatiana, 3rd-century Christian martyr

In modeling:

• Tatiana Dante, fashion model and America's Next Top Model Cycle 4 candidate
• Tatiana Cotliar, Argentine model
• Tatiana Sorokko, Russian model
• Tatjana Patitz, German model

In television and films:

• Tatiana (singer), Mexican singer and children's television show host
• Tatyana Ali, actress and singer
• Tatiana Maslany, Canadian actress
• Tatiana Papamoschou, Greek actress
• Tatjana Simić, Dutch actress and singer
• Tatiana Stefanidou, Greek television host

In sport:

• Tatyana Alekseyeva, Russian 400 metre runner
• Tatyana Biryulina, Soviet javelin thrower
• Tathiana Garbin, Italian tennis player
• Tatiana Golovin, French tennis player of Russian origin
• Tatiana Grigorieva, Australian athlete of Russian origin
• Tatiana Gutsu, Ukrainian Olympic Gymnast
• Tatyana Konstantinova, Russian hammer thrower
• Tatiana Lemos, Brazilian freestyle swimmer
• Tatyana Lesovaya, Russian discus thrower
• Tatjana Malek, German tennis player
• Tatiana Panova, Russian tennis player
• Tatiana Perebiynis, Ukrainian tennis player
• Tatyana Polovinskaya, Ukrainian long-distance runner
• Tatiana Poutchek, Belarusian tennis player
• Tatyana Skatchko, Russian long jumper
• Tatyana Sudarikova, Kyrgyzstani javelin thrower

In music:

• Tatiana Borodina, Russian opera soprano
• Tatiana Bulanova, Russian pop singer
• Tatiana Cameron, Croatian-born pop singer (formerly known as "Tajci")
• Tatiana von Furstenberg, daughter of Prince Egon and Princess Diane Von Furstenberg; singer in the band Playdate
• Tatiana DeMaria, English musician
• Tatiana Okupnik, Polish singer, based in London
• Nobility:
• Princess Tatiana Konstantinovna of Russia
• Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia

In literature and fiction:

• Tatyana Tolstaya, modern Russian writer, granddaughter of Aleksey 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"

In other uses:

• Tatiana was a Siberian tiger involved in two San Francisco Zoo tiger attacks resulting in one human fatality and Tatiana's shooting death
• Tanya is a character of Mortal Kombat game series

Variations of the name

• Czech: Taťána
• Dutch: Tatjana
• English: Tatiana. Diminutive: Tanya
• French: Tatiana, Tatianna, Tatyanna, Tatienne (uncommon). Diminutive: Tania, Tanya.
• German: Tatjana
• Hungarian: Tatjána
• Italian: Tatiana
• Japanese: タチアナ
• Norwegian: Tatjana
• Polish: Tacjana
• Romanian: Tatiana, Tatianna. Diminutive: Tania
• Russian: Татьяна (Tatijana). Diminutive: Таня (Tania), Tanychka, Tanetchka, Tatianka.
• Slovakian: Tatiana. Diminutive: Táňa
• Slovene: Tatjana. Diminutive: Tanja. Variants: Tatiana, Tatijana, Tatja, Tatjanca, Tia, Tiana, Tija, Tijana, Tjaša
• Ukrainian: Тетяна (Tetiana)

See also

• Tatian (disambiguation)

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