Tiana

Where Tiana comes from

Modern contraction of Tatiana and Christiana. In the USA it is also explained as a form of Diana in such unrelated languages as Samoan and Cherokee (but the author Tiana Bighorse is a Navajo).
— Wiktionary's entry for Tiana
  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1897
    Tiana Lemnitz born
    singer
  2. 1950
    First appearance
    #3,962 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1984
    Tiana Benjamin born
    British actress
  4. 1995
    Peak, #267
    1,024 babies named Tiana — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2008
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #641.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Tiana Benjamin · British actress, born 1984
  • Tiana Lemnitz · singer, 1897–1994
  • Tiana Alexandra · Vietnamese-American actress, born 1961
  • Tiana Angelina Moser · Swiss politician, born 1979
  • Tiana Mangakahia · Australian basketball player, 1995–2025

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.