Tannis
Variation of Tanith, Phoenician
"daughter"
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Updated Tue Feb 03 2026
Tannis Origin and Meaning
Variation of Tanis
The name Tannis in Pop Culture
- Tannis Dumontbeautiful "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 fictionalmysterious 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.
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