Tinatin
The name carries the meaning "light". It stays rare in Poland: only around 140 women bear it, most Poles will never meet one, and the last few girls given it arrived in the early 2020s.
Tinatin Pronunciation
Tinatin is pronounced tee-NAH-teen (/tiˈnatin/).
What Tinatin means
Where Tinatin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Tinatin comes from Georgian, where it belongs to Shota Rustaveli's epic poem "The Knight in the Panther's Skin," written around the twelfth century. There the name marks a princess whom King Rostevan crowns in his own lifetime. Georgian tradition links the name to sunlight, to a ray or gleam, and the short meaning kept in Poland is simply "light."
The origin is classed as "other," outside the Latin and Slavic families that fill most Polish registers. That rarity is part of its character. A Tinatin on a Polish class register stands apart from the Annas and Katarzynas around her.
The name reached beyond the page. Georgian queens and noblewomen have borne it, and it stays in use across Georgia today. In Poland it arrives without a name-day of its own and without a fixed diminutive.
What the name has meant to those who carry it stays close to that first sense: light.
How many people are named Tinatin
1 in 163361 women in Poland is named Tinatin. 138 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2812 among female names.
Tinatin's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Where Tinatin is most popular
Tinatin is most popular in Łódź, 1605% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025).
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Łódź2 girls born+1605%