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My name is Tatiana. I use to hate it cause people used to make fun of my name when i was twelve. Mostly guys made fun of my name. But now i love it because it's so different from everyone else. Nobody makes fun of me now, and i'm fourteen. People say that they like my name and it's so unique :D

My name is a dimunitive of Tatiana. I love it! I have so many nicknames though. People always want to shorten it though. Tat, T, Tati. I've heard it all!

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Tanya, Tati, Tiana, Tanusha, Tat, Tatia, Tania

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St. Tatiana, 3rd-century Christian martyr
Tatiana, Mexican singer who goes by only one name.
Grand Duchess Tatiana of Russia, daughter of Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra
Princess Tatiana von Furstenberg, filmmaker and daughter of designer Diane von Furstenberg, who named one of her perfumes "Tatiana" after her daughter
Tatiana Ortiz of Mexico won the bronze in synchronized diving at the 2008 Olympics, with her partner Paola Espinosa
Tatiana Golovin, French-Russian tennis player
Caroline Kennedy and Ed Schlossberg have a daughter named Tatiana

Tatiana in song, story & screen: | Edit

Tatiana Romanova, James Bond's lover in the film "From Russia With Love"
Tatiana Larina, heroine of Alexander Pushkin's epic poem "Eugene Onegin". In the poem Pushkin suggests that the name Tatiana was more common for peasants than for well-born women in the early 19th century. Pushkin's character may have inspired the Russian royal family to use the name for Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna and Princess Tatiana Konstantinovna.