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Tatjana

Girls' name

Form of Tatiana

Tatjana has been given to 424 babies in the U.S. since 1963. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1987, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Tatjana, 2017

1 in 715,000

Tatjana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tatjana: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Tatiana

Russian

What Tatjana means

Tatjana is a form of Tatiana.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Tatjana is used in Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian, German, Latvian, Lithuanian, Finnish and Estonian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ta.ˈtja.na/, /tɐ.tʲjɐ.ˈnɐ/ and /ˈtɑ.tjɑ.nɑ/ for Tatjana.

Origin, language, and formation

Tatjana is used in German and Latvian. Its origins include Russian.

Tatjana comes through Russian Татья́на and Latin Tatiana.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tatiana and Татья́на.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Tatjana is pronounced [tatˈjaːna].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 424 girls were recorded with the name Tatjana between 1963 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1987; its best national rank was #3,512 in 1987.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Tatjana?

Tatjana had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 715,000
5 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
495,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tatjana sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tatjana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tatjanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tatjana was born before 1993 — so the typical Tatjana is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
42.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
51.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
424
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 42.5% of all recorded uses (180).

Is Tatjana rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1987 (26)
Years since peak
38
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,512
1987

Spellings of Tatjana

Tatjana is not the most common spelling — Tatiana is, with 48.2% against Tatjana's 0.58%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Tatjana is used

Across 1910–2025, Tatjana was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 792,199 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Tatjana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tatjana around the world

Where Tatjana ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2012
    #5,876
    in 2012
  • France
    1968–2010
    #6,097
    in 2010
  • Norway
    1880–2000
    #577
    in 2000
  • Canada
    1991–2003
    #2,681
    in 2003
  • South Australia
    1950–2012
    #563
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Tatjana by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,512
1987
Peak year
1987
26 that year
First recorded
1963
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
424
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tatjana

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Tatjana

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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