In Croatia, Tiani families are generally Italians (from Rovinj ), very rarely Croats (also from Rovinj ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and in Rovinj area.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Tiani live in Croatia today, in four households only. There were 0 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied. They are located in only two Croatian places: in Rovinj (10) and Karlovici in Pazin area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.