Dana

Dana is a given name used for both females and males. It was among the 100 most popular names given to girls born in the United States between 1960 and 1990. It has since fallen in popularity and was ranked the 446th most popular name given to girls born in the United States in 2007. As a male forename it is well known in the United States, being in the 314th rank out of 1,219 in the 1990 U.S. Census.
The name has multiple derivations. It may come from "Dane" (from Denmark), the meaning of the common surname. It is also occasionally regarded as a feminine version of Daniel or a short version of feminine names such as Bogdana or Yordana. Dana is also an alternate spelling of the name for Danu, a Celtic fertility goddess. In Persian, the word Dānā literally means "knowledgeable", and some speculate that the name is first used as a first name in Shahnameh. It may also refer to the mountain Dana or Dena.The name is used in Persian for both female and male sexes. Dana or Danah, in Arabic, means "the most perfectly sized, valuable and beautiful pearl". This name is used mainly by Arabs of the Persian Gulf (Eastern Arabia), due to their traditional pearl diving professions wherein they gave different type of pearls names. It is used in the Arab world as a female name. In Hebrew, the name Dana means "arbiter" or "God is my judge". In Sanskrit and Pali, the word means "generosity". In Romanian, it is a feminine name, derived from the name Daniela; the Romanian masculine form being Dan/Daniel.

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Fem. proper name; in U.S. little used before c. 1925, then in top 100 for girls born from 1963 to 1984.

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Derived from Dane, means: from Denmark, someone living around the English River Dane.

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Dana White	1969	President of the UFC
2	Dana Carvey	1955	Comedian
3	Dana Delany	1956	Actress
4	Dana Perino	1972	Former White House Press Secretary
5	Dana Plato	1964	American actress
6	Dana Brooke	1988	American fitness competitor, bodybuilder, and professional wrestler
7	Dana Scully	1964	Fictional character and protagonist of the television series The X-Files
8	Dana Bash	1971	American journalist
9	Dana Vespoli	1972	American pornographic actress and director
10	Dana Reeve	1961	Actress, singer, activist
11	Dana Loesch	1978	American talk radio host
12	Dana Hill	1964	Actress
13	Dana DeArmond	1979	American pornographic actress
14	Dana Ashbrook	1967	Actor
15	Dana Barron	1966	American actress
16	Dana Rohrabacher	1947	American politician
17	Dana Elcar	1927	American television and movie character actor
18	Dana Altman	1958	Basketball coach
19	Dana DeLorenzo	1983	American actress
20	Dana Wheeler-Nicholson	1960	American actress
21	Dana Jacobson	1971	American sports announcer
22	Dana Ivey	1941	American actress
23	Dana Vollmer	1987	American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, world record-holder
24	Dana Snyder	1973	American stand-up comedian
25	Dana Boente	1954	American lawyer
26	Dana Brunetti	1973	American film producer
27	Dana Gould	1964	Comedian and comedy writer
28	Dana Holgorsen	1971	American football player and coach
29	Dana International	1972	Israeli pop singer
30	Dana Wynter	1931	Actress
31	Dana Tyler	1958	American journalist
32	Dana Golombek	1970	German actress
33	Dana Rosemary Scallon	1951	Irish singer and politician
34	Dana Davis	1978	American actress
35	Dana Ewell	1971	American convicted triple murderer
36	Dana Gaier	1997	American actress and singer
37	Dana Milbank	1968	American journalist
38	Dana Sue Gray	1957	American female serial killer
39	Dana Fuchs	1976	Singer
40	Dana Stubblefield	1970	Player of American football
41	Dana Gillespie	1949	British actress, singer and songwriter
42	Dana Barros	1967	American basketball player-coach
43	Dana Stone	1939	American photojournalist
44	Dana Dane	1965	American rapper
45	Dana Drábová	1961	Czech physicist and local politician
46	Dana Batulková	1958	Czech actress and local politician
47	Dana linn bailey	1983
48	Dana Kimmell	1959	American actress
49	Dana Winner	1965	Belgian female singer
50	Dana Scott	1932	American mathematician and computer scientist
51	Dana Warrior
52	Dana Strum	1958	American musician
53	Paul Dana	1975	American racing driver
54	Dana Olsen		American actor
55	Dana Fox	1976	American screenwriter
56	Dana Schutz	1976	American artist
57	Leora Dana	1923	American actress
58	Dana Gioia	1950	American writer
59	Dana		Character from According to Jim
60	Dana X. Bible	1891	American college football coach, college baseball coach, college basketball coach, college athletics administrator
61	Dana Priest	1957	American journalist
62	Dana Stabenow	1952	American writer
63	Charles Anderson Dana	1819	American journalist, author, and senior government official
64	Dana Rosenblatt	1972	American boxer
65	Francis Dana	1743	Chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
66	Dana Colley	1961	American musician
67	James Dwight Dana	1813	American mineralogist
68	Dana Christina	1957	Actress
69	Viola Dana	1897	Actress
70	Dana Reizniece-Ozola	1981	Latvian chess player and politician
71	Dana Randall		American computer scientist
72	Dana Gourrier	2000	American actress
73	Dana Shell Smith	1970	American diplomat
74	Dana Glover	1974	American pop singer and songwriter
75	Dana Hee	1961	American actress
76	Dana Sparks	1961	American actress
77	Dana Eveland	1983	American baseball player
78	Dana Eskelson	1965	American actress
79	Simphiwe Dana	1980	South African musician
80	Dana Kunze	1961	American diver
81	Dana Vávrová	1967	Czech-German actress and film director
82	Audrey Dana	1979	French actress
83	Dana Walden	1965	American businessperson
84	Dana J.H. Pittard		United States general
85	Dana Simpson	1977	Artist and writer
86	Dana Rogoz	1985	Romanian actress
87	Dana de Teffé
88	Vic Dana	1942	American singer and dancer
89	Dana Spiotta	1966	Author
90	John Cotton Dana	1856	American librarian and museum director
91	Dana Redd	1968	American politician; Mayor of Camden, New Jersey
92	Dana Dimel	1962	American football player and coach
93	Dana Dawson	1974	American actress
94	Dana Brown	1959	American surfer and filmmaker
95	Dana Ivgy	1982	Israeli actress
96	Dana Zátopková	1922	Czech javelin thrower
97	Dana Young	1964	Florida State Representative
98	Dana DeMuth	1956	Baseball umpire from the United States
99	Dana Lyons		American musician
100	Dana Key	1953	Rock musician and Pastor
101	Dana Beal	1947	Social/political activist
102	Dana Ford	1984	American basketball coach
103	Dana King	1960	American television journalist
104	Dana Telsey	1962	American businessman
105	Charles A. Dana	1881	American politician and philanthropist
106	Dana Bible	1953	American football coach and player
107	Dana Gonzales	1963	Cinematographer
108	Dana Makoto Sabraw	1958	United States federal judge
109	Dana Valery	1944	Singer, artist, entrepreneur
110	Dana Ullman	1951	American writer
111	Dana Lerska	1935
112	Dana A. Dorsey	1872	American banker
113	Dana Geissler	1963	German actress and voice actress
114	Dana Larsen	1971	Canadian politician
115	Dana Swanson	1981	American actor, singer and writer
116	Dana Cowin		American magazine editor
117	Dana Rayne	1981	American singer
118	Dana Belben		American actor, animator and comedian
119	Dana Howard	1972	All-American college football player, professional football player, linebacker
120	Dana Andersen		Canadian actor
121	Dana Stevens		Producer, screenwrtiter
122	Dana Hussain	1986	Athletics competitor
123	Dana Schweiger	1968	American television presenter, entrepreneur and model
124	Dana Quigley	1947	Professional golfer
125	Bill Dana	1930	NASA research pilot and astronaut
126	Dana LeVangie	1969	American baseball player and coach
127	Mazen Dana	1960	Palestinian journalist
128	Dana Duckworth	1971	American college gymnastics coach, former elite and college gymnast
129	Dana Suesse	1909	American composer
130	Dana Summers		Cartoonist, editorial cartoonist
131	Dana Murzyn	1966	Canadian ice hockey player
132	Samuel Dana	1767	American politician
133	Dana Grigorcea	1979	Swiss writer and journalist
134	Dana Shires	1932	American medical doctor, nephrologist, researcher, co-inventor of Gatorade, philanthropist
135	Dana van Dreven	1974	Dutch club dj and disc jockey
136	Dana K. Chipman	1958	United States general
137	Dana Goldstein		American journalist
138	Dana D. Nelson	1962	American activist
139	Dana Sawyer	1951	American writer
140	Dana Perry	2000	American film director
141	Dana Tyrell	1989	Canadian ice hockey player
142	Dana Beyer	1952	American politician and activist
143	Dana Wachs	1957	Wisconsin politician
144	Dana Bourgeois	1953	Master luthier and acoustics voicing expert
145	Dana Olmert	1972	Israeli left wing activist, literary theorist and editor
146	Dana Tai Soon Burgess	1968	Choreographer, dance artist, cultural figure
147	Dana Seetahal	1955	Trinidad and Tobago lawyer
148	Dana Morávková	1971	Czech actress, choreographer, figure skater and television presenter
149	Dana Lewis	1959	Canadian journalist
150	Dana H. Born	1960	United States General
151	Dana Ulery	1938	American computer scientist
152	Dana Kirk	1984	American swimmer, Olympic athlete, Pan American Games bronze medalist
153	Dana Ferguson	1987	Curler
154	Dana Fabe	1951	American judge
155	Dana L. Christensen	1951	Judge
156	Dana Cameron	1965	American writer and archaeologist
157	Dana Lixenberg	1964	Dutch film director
158	Dana Angluin		Professor
159	Dana Wilson	1946	Conductor, pianist, composer
160	Dana Berger	1970	Israeli actor and musician
161	Dana Ghia	1932	Actress
162	Dana Iswara	1962
163	Dana Carleton Munro	1866	United States historian
164	Dana Tomlin		American academic
165	Dana Leslie Fields		Magazine publisher
166	Dana E. Glauberman	1968	American film editor
167	Dana Nălbaru	1976	Romanian singer
168	Dana Hudkins Crawford	1931	American architectural preservationist
169	Dana Claxton	1959	Hunkpapa Lakota filmmaker, photographer and performance artist
170	Dana Adam Shapiro	2000	American journalist
171	Dana Pe'er	1971	Bioinformatician
172	Dana Porter	1901	Canadian politician
173	Dana McLemore	1960	American football player
174	Napoleon J.T. Dana	1822	Union Army general
175	Dana Wells	1966	American football player
176	Dana Thomas	1964	American journalist
177	Dana Ward	1949	American academic
178	Dana Nielsen		American musician
179	Dana Hall	1969	Jazz drummer
180	Dana Sterling
181	Dana Carpender	1958	American food writer
182	Dana McVicker		American musician
183	Dana McKenzie
184	Dana P. Rowe		American composer
185	Dana Jennings	1957	American writer
186	Dana Goodyear	1976	American journalist
187	Dana Jean Phoenix	1987
188	Dana Heitman	1966	American musician
189	Aes Dana		French musician
190	Dana Snyman		South African writer
191	Dana L. Cloud		American academic
192	Dana Kiecker	1961	American baseball player
193	Dana Jones	1972	Basketball player
194	Dana Gálová	1960
195	Dana Andrews		Singer/musician from Augusta, Ga
196	Dana Nechushtan	1970	Dutch screenwriter and film director
197	Dana Dragomir	1964	Swedish musician
198	John W. Dana	1808	Maine politician
199	Samuel W. Dana	1760	United States lawyer and politician
200	Dana Mohler-Faria		American politician