Tianna

About Tianna

Tianna is a modern English spelling of Tiana, a name that can shorten Tatiana or Christiana. Its meaning therefore depends on the longer name behind it. Olympic champion Tianna Bartoletta gives this double-n spelling a particularly strong association with sprinting and the long jump.

Origins and related forms

The Tatiana route leads to the ancient Roman name family Tatius, whose deeper meaning is uncertain. The Christiana route belongs to the Christian name family, meaning “Christian” or “follower of Christ.” Neither history should be assumed for every Tianna.

Tianna adds a second n to Tiana while keeping a similar sound. Tia can work as a shorter everyday form, drawing on the opening syllables.

Two familiar English pronunciations are tee-AH-nuh and tee-AN-uh. Both have three syllables and emphasize the middle one; the difference lies in the central vowel.

Tianna Bartoletta

Tianna Bartoletta won Olympic gold in the long jump at the 2016 Rio Games. She also won gold with the United States women's 4-by-100-meter relay team, adding a second title at the same Olympics.

An earlier relay gold came at the 2012 London Games, when she competed under the surname Madison. Her Olympic record therefore includes three gold medals across two Games and two disciplines.

Bartoletta also won outdoor world long-jump titles in 2005 and 2015. Those championships, ten years apart, show the long span of her success at the highest level.

Her international record also includes bronze medals in the indoor 60 meters in 2012 and 2014, plus long-jump bronze at the 2017 World Championships. Those results extend the medal history beyond her Olympic victories and outdoor world titles.

Her athletics career combined the speed required for sprinting with the technique of the long jump. The relay medals and individual jumping titles make her a namesake with accomplishments across more than one event.

A winter-sport chapter

Bartoletta also tried bobsleigh between her Olympic athletics appearances. As a brakeman with pilot Elana Meyers Taylor, she earned World Cup bronze in Lake Placid during the 2012–2013 season.

That result supplies an unusual additional chapter: an athlete known for summer track and field also competed successfully in a winter sliding sport.

Accounts under Madison and Bartoletta retain Tianna as her first name. The spelling connects the different phases of her sporting career, including the period before her 2016 Olympic long-jump victory.

American popularity

Tianna's largest annual American female total was 592 in 1995, when it ranked #435. It was recorded for 562 girls in 2000 and 343 in 2010.

In 2025, 111 girls received the spelling, at #1,817. The American peak preceded Bartoletta's senior world titles and Olympic medals.

Tiana is counted separately. Tianna's series follows the double-n form and its own strongest period in the mid-1990s.

How popular is Tianna?

In 2025, Tianna ranked #1,817 among girls in the United States, with 111 recorded uses. The U.S. birth records first list this spelling for girls in 1962; its largest annual count was 592 in 1995. Rankings count each spelling separately. They describe national use, so local familiarity can differ. The popularity chart shows whether the name has remained common, returned after a quieter period, or risen recently.