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Tatiana

About 11,000 Polish women carry it, but it's fading fast: after a peak in the 2000s, only a handful of girls get it in a year now. The root is Greek, marking someone as "of the Tatius family".

Tatiana Pronunciation

Tatiana is pronounced taht-YAH-nah (/tatˈjana/).

Alive in 2025
11,399
Newborns 2025
6
National rank
#349
Next name day
25 January
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What Tatiana means

Where Tatiana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Tatiana goes back to Tatius, an old Roman family name, and its short meaning stays close to that root: belonging to the Tatius family. The form we know traveled west through the Greek-speaking Christian east, where a young Roman woman named Tatiana was remembered as a martyr and, later, a saint. So a Latin surname became a Christian given name, and the given name crossed languages before it ever reached a Polish register.

In Russia it settled deeply. Pushkin gave the heroine of Eugene Onegin the name Tatiana Larina, and readers have admired her seriousness for two centuries. Every 25 January, Russian students still mark Tatiana Day, a holiday tied both to Saint Tatiana and to the founding of Moscow University in 1755.

Polish records hold the fuller variants Tatjana and Tacjana, while at home a girl is usually just Tania. Read the name back far enough and you land where it started, on a Roman clan and its plain address: belonging to the Tatius family.

When Tatiana celebrates name day

Tatiana appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 25 January.

Next name day
25 January
Monday in 2027
Next one in 137 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.

How many people are named Tatiana

1 in 1978 women in Poland is named Tatiana. 11,399 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #349 among female names.

People with the name Tatiana 2019 → 2025
11,399 +2,987 since 2019
2020 8,601 +189
2021 8,843 +242
2022 9,285 +442
2023 11,103 +1,818
2024 11,253 +150
2025 11,399 +146

Tatiana's popularity over time

6 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #896 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #349 name among living women, even as it slips to #896 among newborns.

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6 newborns with the name Tatiana in 2025
national rank #896 that year

Where Tatiana is most popular

Tatiana is most popular in Silesian, 176% above the national average (36 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Kuyavian-Pomeranian (+91%) and Pomeranian (+77%). It is least common in Lower Silesian and Łódź, 78% and 72% below average respectively.

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Tatiana as a middle name

Tatiana is a first name for 11,399 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2,349, an 83/17 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 185th, between Teodora (2,397) and Albina (2,347).

As a first name
11,399
As a middle name
2,349
first name 83% middle name 17%
Middle-name ranking women

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