Dana

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɑːnə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪ.nə/, /ˈdænə/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːnə

Dana

1. An American surname of uncertain origin.
2. (chiefly US) A unisex given name transferred from the surname, originally given in honor of Richard Henry Dana Jr.
   • 1971, J. Anthony Lukas, Don't Shoot — We Are Your Children, Random House, →ISBN, page 419:

     Johnie had become a "problem" for the advisers and "baby deans" in University Hall: men with marvelously Puritan names like Dana Cotton and Christopher Wadsworth called him in and asked what the trouble was.

   • 2000, California Blue Book‎, page 168:

     Currently serving his sixth term in Congress, Dana Rohrabacher represents California's scenic 45th Congressional District.

3. A female given name from Hebrew, masculine equivalent Daniel, from Romanian, Czech, Slovak and German.
4. A unisex given name from Persian, borrowed from Persian دانا (dânâ), meaning “wise”.
5. A female given name from Gulf Arabic دانة (dāna), meaning “pearl”.
6. A town in Indiana; named for Charles Dana, a railroad official.
7. A village in Illinois; named for Thomas Dana, a railroad official.
8. A city in Iowa; named for Samuel Dana, an early settler.
9. A town in central-west Nepal.
10. A village in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.
11. A village in Amhara, Ethiopia.
12. A village in central-west Jordan.

• A-DNA, ANDA, Anda, NDAA, aDNA, nada

• IPA^(key): [ˈdana]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Hyphenation: Da‧na

Feminine form of the biblical name Dan. Also a short form of Daniela and Bohdana.

Dana f

1. a female given name

Dana

1. genitive/accusative singular of Dan

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1969. From Daniela.

Dana f

1. a female given name

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
• Population Register of Latvia: Dana was the only given name of 2197 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdana/

Dana

1. genitive singular of Dan
2. accusative singular of Dan
3. nominative dual of Dan

From Old Norse Dana, from *dana (“female Dane”), thus a feminine form of Danr, from danr (“Dane”).

• IPA^(key): /²daːna/

Dana f (definite Dana)

1. a female given name from Old Norse, meaning “Dane”, masculine equivalent Dan

• dan, dane (“Dane”)

• Eivind Vågslid (1988) “Dana”, in Norderlendske fyrenamn (in Norwegian Nynorsk), →ISBN

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈdana/

Dana f (genitive singular Dany, nominative plural Dany, declension pattern of žena)

1. a female given name

• Danka
• Danuľa, Danuľka
• Danuša, Danuška

• “Dana”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024