“A man’s name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him, and which one perchance may safely twitch and pull, but a perfectly fitted garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Hi friends,
My full name is Tatiana, short name Tanya. The reason I was named that was because my mum liked name Anya. However, this was a name of her dead grandmother, my great grandmother, so she decided not to go with that name due to… superstitions.. Tanya sounded very similar. After discussing this with my dad and agreeing that all Tanyas they knew were nice people, I was given that name
As I found out today, Tatiana has two origins, Roman and Russian.
Derived from the Latin name Tatius and the Roman name Tatianus, this name means “fairy queen.”
Tatiana is a feminine, diminutive derivative of the Sabine—and later Latin—name Tatius. King Titus Tatius was the name of a legendary ruler of the Sabines, an Italic tribe living near Rome around the 8th century BC. After the Romans absorbed the Sabines, the name Tatius remained in use in the Roman world, into the first centuries of Christianity, as well as the masculine diminutive Tatianus and its feminine counterpart, Tatiana.
Tanya on the other hand is the Slavic hypocoristic of Tatiana. It is commonly used as an independent given name in the English Speaking world. The name’s popularity among English-speakers (and other non-Slavs) was originally due to the popularity of Alexander Pushkin’s verse novel Eugene Onegin, whose heroine is named Tatiana “Tanya” Larina.
Hope you found this as interesting as I did:)
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