Tanya (name)

For other uses, see Tanya (disambiguation).
Tanya
Gender: Female
Origin: Slavic
Meaning: Short form of Tatiana, Ancient Greek (Establisher, Decider), Latin ('tatius', great) Russian (Fiery Queen), Sanskrit (Daughter), Persian (unique girl)
Pronunciation: /ˈtɑːnjə/, /ˈtænjə/
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Tanya is the Slavic hypocoristic of Tatiana. It is now quite commonly used as an independent given name in the English-speaking world.[1]

Its popularity grew in many respects thanks to Alexander Pushkin's poem Eugene Onegin whose main character was Tatiana Larina, beloved by Onegin.

Variants include Tania, Tanja (Serbo-Croatian, German, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Dutch, Macedonian and Ukrainian),[1] Tanea (Romanian) or Táňa (Czech).[2]

It is the 237th most common name in the United States according to namestatistics.com, which uses US Census data.[3]

People called Tanya

Tanya

Tanja

Further information: Tanja

Notes and references

  1. 1 2 A Dictionary of First Names, Patrick Hanks & Flavia Hodges, Oxford University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-19-211651-7.
  2. http://www.kdejsme.cz/jmeno/T%C3%A1%C5%88a/
  3. "Tanya". namestatistics.com. Retrieved 9 October 2010.

See also

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