Dana

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English

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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[1], 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.

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Czech

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Czech Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Proper noun

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Dana f

  1. a female given name
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Etymology 2

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Proper noun

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Dana

  1. genitive/accusative singular of Dan

Latvian

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Etymology

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

Proper noun

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Dana f

  1. a female given name

References

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

Lower Sorbian

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Noun

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Dana

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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

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Dana f (definite Dana)

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

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Etymology

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

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

  1. a female given name

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Further reading

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  • 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