Entry № 10402 · Russian origin

Tatjana Tatjana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ tah-TYAH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Russian
Meaning
"From the Tatius family"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Russian)

A name that means "from the tatius family".

Tatjana is the Slavic form of Tatiana — from the Roman family name Tatius. Saint Tatiana of Rome was a 3rd-century deaconess and martyr; her feast day (January 25) is celebrated as Russian Students' Day.

Tatjana is widely used across the Slavic world. The heroine of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (1833) is Tatyana.

Pushkin's heroine. The Russian students' patron.

The name in its native script.

Татьяна
Transliteration
Tatyana
Pronunciation
/ tɑːtˈjɑː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tatjana stands.

Tatjana does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Tatjanas before her.

Real people
Tatjana Patitz
German supermodel.
1966 – 2023
In fiction
Tatyana Larina
Heroine of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin.
1833 verse novel

Names connected to Tatjana.

The number behind Tatjana.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tatjana reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.