Tannis

Variation of Tanith, Phoenician

"daughter"

Tannis Origin and Meaning

The name Tannis is a girl's name .

Lucy Maud Montgomery used Tannis as a character name in her short story 'Tannis of the Flats'. Her character has Cree origins, and it is thought that Montgomery may have based the name off of the Cree word for "daughter", tânis.

Tannis is also considered a variation of Tanith, the Phoenician deity who was the patron of Carthage, and goddess of the moon and fertility.

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Tannis in Pop Culture

• Tannis Dumont beautiful "half,breed" Canadian girl in Lucy Maud Montgomery's short story 'Tannis of the Flats' (1920), which has been criticized as racist
• Patricia Tannis (goes by Tannis) character in Borderlands video games
• Tannis root is the fictional mysterious herb used by the devil,worshiping neighbors of Rosemary in Roman Polanski's classic "Rosemary's Baby," and in the novel of the same name by Ira Levin.