Tatiana

Where Tatiana comes from

Popular saints' name in the Eastern Orthodox Church, feminine of Latin Tatiānus, from Tatius (a Roman family name of obscure origin) + -ānus. Modern English usage is derived from Russian Татья́на (Tatʹjána).
— Wiktionary's entry for Tatiana
  • Latin
  • 4 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #4,274 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1985
    Tatiana Maslany born
    Canadian actress
  3. 1988
    Tatiana Golovin born
    French tennis player
  4. 1999
    Peak, #213
    1,466 babies named Tatiana — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2011
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #447.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Tatiana Maslany · Canadian actress, born 1985
  • Tatiana Golovin · French tennis player, born 1988
  • Tatiana Sorokko · Russian model and journalist, born 1971
  • Tatiana Kotova · Russian singer and Miss Russia 2006, born 1985
  • Tatiana Schlossberg · American journalist and author, 1990–2025

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.