In Croatia, Tilinger families are Croats (from Pozega ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pozega.
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Tilinger live in Croatia today, in 9 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in only threee naselja i to in Pozega (20), Jaksic in Pozega area (<5), and in Alaginci (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1924 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.