Tiana is a modern American invention — possibly a diminutive of Tatiana, Christiana, or simply a creative formation. **Princess Tiana — the protagonist of Disney's animated film *The Princess and the Frog* (2009) — is the first African American Disney princess; she is the first Disney princess depicted as a working-class entrepreneur (a New Orleans waitress saving to open her restaurant) rather than royalty by birth**; voiced by Anika Noni Rose. **The film, set in 1920s Jazz Age New Orleans, is Disney's only animated feature directed by Black creative leadership (John Musker and Ron Clements with Princess and the Frog soundtrack by Randy Newman); the 2024 Disneyland and Disney World attraction *Tiana's Bayou Adventure* opened to acclaim**. **A top-200 US baby name from 2010 to 2014**. **Tiana Major9 (born 1995)** — British R&B singer.
Featured throughout 2010s Disney consumer culture.
Tiana reduces to seven — the number of first Black Disney princess.