Name Dana

Meaning:

the Dane

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About the name Dana in particular

Gender:	female
Languages of use:	English
Topics:	Male and female
Popularity:	no rank in any popularity list in this database
Similarly written:	Dana, Dana, Ana, Daja, Dan, Dan, Dan, Danaë, Dane, Dani Details

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About Dana, 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:	758:Dayna USA 1995