Entry № 10405 · Russian origin

Tatyana Tatyana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TAH-tyah-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Russian
Meaning
"Setter / appointer (Tatyana Ali, Fresh Prince; Tatyana McFadden)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "setter / appointer (tatyana ali, fresh prince; tatyana mcfadden)".

Tatyana (Татья́на) is the Russian-spelling variant of Tatiana — from the Latin Tatianus, the feminine of Tatius (Titus Tatius was a Sabine king and co-ruler of Rome with Romulus, c. 750 BCE). Born in St. Tatyana Tolstaya — Russian author. "Tatyana" is the heroine of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (1825).

Setter / appointer (Tatyana Ali, Fresh Prince; Tatyana McFadden) — a Russian name.

The name in its native script.

Татья́на
Transliteration
Tat'yana
Pronunciation
/ tɐtˈjæ.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tatyana stands.

Tatyana 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.

Tatyanas before her.

Real people
Tatyana Ali
American actress and singer.
born 1979
Tatyana McFadden
American Paralympic athlete.
born 1989
In fiction
Tatyana Larina
Pushkin's Eugene Onegin.
1825

Names connected to Tatyana.

The number behind Tatyana.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tatyana reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.