Entry № 10613 · Georgian origin

Tinatin Tinatin — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TEE-nah-teen /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Georgian
Meaning
"Sunbeam, ray of light"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Georgian)

A name that means "sunbeam, ray of light".

Tinatin (თინათინ) is a Georgian name meaning "sunbeam" or "ray of light." Tinatin is the heroine of Shota Rustaveli's The Knight in the Panther's Skin (12th century) — Georgia's national epic.

Tinatin is widely used in Georgia.

Sunbeam. Rustaveli's epic heroine.

The name in its native script.

თინათინ
Transliteration
Tinatin
Pronunciation
/ ˈtiː.nə.tiːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tinatin stands.

Tinatin 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.

Tinatins before her.

Real people

In fiction
Tinatin
Heroine of Rustaveli's The Knight in the Panther's Skin.
12th-century epic

Names connected to Tinatin.

The number behind Tinatin.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tinatin reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.