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Name Dana

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the Dane

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About the name Dana in particular

Gender:	male
Languages of use:	English
Topics:	Male and female
US 2021 rank:	not in the Top 1000; other popularity lists see below
Similarly written:	Dana, Dana, Ana, Daja, Dan, Dan, Dan, Danaë, Dane, Dani Details

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About Dane, the group of names with the same origin as Dana

Meaning/translation:	the Dane
Language of origin:	Old English
Info about origin:	from a family name that originally denoted somebody from Denmark
	the den in Denmark probably goes back to an Indoeuropean root word dhen (low, flat)
Words:	dhen = low, flat Indoeuropean
Topics:	Family name, Geographic name
Variants' top ranks:	314:Dane USA 1980-1989, 390:Dana USA 1980-1989, 998:Dayne USA 2000
Name variants:	Dana, Dane, Dayne Sortable list Details

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Popularity lists that contain the name Dana

Series	Graph	Rankings
USA decades	Graph	1990-1999 662, 1980-1989 390
USA yearly	Graph	1997 905, 1996 859, 1995 784, 1994 745, 1993 656