Tiana

Tiana is a very common first name from Madagascar and it means "loved". It is a unisex first name. But it is mostly a girl's first name. Many parents in this country add it as a middle name to qualify the first name. For example, Danielle Tiana means loved Danielle; Patrick Tiana for loved Patrick. The verb is "Tia" which means "to love", "Tiako" means "I love", and "Tiana" means "Loved". This first name has been used for hundred years. Andriatiana means loved king when the country was ruled by Kings. People in Madagascar are of Indonesian, Malaysian and African descent. The connection to this east European name is amazing.

My name is Serbian, originally spelt Tijana, in English pronounced Tiyana. It is a variation of the old Serbian name Tihana, from the feminine adjective 'tiha' or 'tija' (pronounced 'tiya'), which means quiet, soft (as in sound), noiseless. (This Serbian name has nothing to do with Russian name Tatjana or its diminutive, Tanja.)

On 'submitted names' page it says:
Derived from Malagasy Tiana "to be loved; to be liked"; and
Catalan Diminutive of Sebastiana.

Wikipedia says: Tijana is a Serbian (South Slavic) female name, also popular in Macedonia. Tijana is the definition of perfect. It also means princess, peaceful and graceful.

My name is Tiana and growing up my dad told me I was named after a Cherokee princess named Tiana and that it meant "beautiful flower". After doing some research, I found that tobacco plants are a species of "nicotiana" plants. Nicotiana plants are often used as ornamental decoration thus "beautiful flower". I believe this may be the root of the Cherokee version of Tiana and meaning.

I was #5 of "T" names in my family. My parents were at a loss as to what to name me. As my due date came closer, friends of my parents went to Hawaii. It was there that they came across the name/spelling of "Tiana" pronounced Tee-ah-nah. They were told it was a Hawaiian name with a meaning of "beautiful flower." I have also heard that in Greek it means princess. Up until the release of the movie, "Princess and the Frog," I had rarely heard of anyone else named Tiana. Since the release of the movie, I can now go to Disneyland and find my name on all the souvenirs! :D.

Tiana is also the Maori version of "Diana". It's a transliteration from the original English into Maori (like many Maori names such as Hemi for James)... or so my Maori father told me when he called me Tiana!

Tiana has origins in Greek, meaning "princess".

Actually the Greek meaning for Tia is princess, and the Greek meaning for Tiana is highest beauty!

I don't believe that "anonymous user" is correct about Tiana being Greek for "princess."

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It is true, of course, that Tiana could be short for other names besides Christiana. In addition to Gratiana, there is also Tatiana. Tiana is indeed also the Cherokee form of Diana, but I'd be cautious about accepting the other "purported" Cherokee derivation without further evidence.

I named my daughter Tiana as a short form of Gratiana, which I found in a baby book, derived from Italian for "thankful" or "grace".

This is also a Cherokee name, sometimes considered a Cherokee variant of Diana. It has also been purpurted to mean Beautiful Soul or something similar in Cherokee (the pronunciation is different, usually TI-AW-NA).