In Croatia, Thian families are Croats (from Cabar ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cabar and Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Thian live in Croatia today, in four households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are located in one Croatian city only, in Zagreb (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.