Tania's Notebook puts her name front and center, written in flowing script across a soft watercolor apple blossom design.
Behind the Name calls Tania a variant of Tanya, which is itself a short form of Tatiana. Its usage is listed as English, Italian and Spanish. That ties it to the saint Tatiana, a 3rd-century martyr in Rome, and to the Roman family name Tatius.
Behind the Name lists Tatiana, Tatianna and Tatyanna as full forms of Tania, with Tanya, Tiana and Tianna as other English variants and Tanja, Táňa and Tània in other languages. It also shows Tawnya and Tonya as related English names. Tanya is the closest sister spelling.
Wikipedia’s long list of Tanias includes Tania Mallet (1941 to 2019), an English actress and model, and Tania Cagnotto, born in 1985, an Italian diver. It also names Tania Maria, born in 1948, a Brazilian singer, composer, bandleader and piano player, and Tania Sachdev, born in 1986, an Indian chess player.
Tania never appeared in a Social Security top-200 decade table, from the 1880s to the 2010s. Behind the Name’s US chart has it in the top 1,000 for 51 years between 1960 and 2010, best at 312th in 1976. Elsewhere it did better: 97th in Canada in 1979 and 44th in Galicia, Spain, in 2005.
Wikipedia notes that Tamara Bunke, an Argentine-born East German Communist revolutionary who died in 1967 alongside Che Guevara, went by the name “Tania” or “Tania the Guerrillera.” The page also lists Tania Emery, born in 1976, a British actress.
Any Tania, of any age. The 6" x 9" size is roomy enough for proper writing and small enough for a handbag or school bag. With 160 plain lined pages there’s no fixed layout, so it can be a diary, a gratitude journal, a study notebook, a recipe book or a home for to-do lists. Notebooks tend to multiply in drawers, but one with her name on the front is instantly hers.
There’s something about seeing your own name in print. It makes a notebook feel like it belongs to you, which is a good reason to fill it. It also means Tania can pick hers out of a pile in a second, at school, at work or on the kitchen counter.
How big is Tania’s Notebook? About the size of a trade paperback book: 6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 cm), 160 lined pages.
Where do I buy it? It’s sold on Amazon in the US, Australia and the UK. Amazon prints and ships each copy and handles delivery and returns.
Do you have other names? Yes, the same apple blossom design comes in hundreds of girls’ names. Start at all name notebooks or our personalized name notebooks guide.
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