first name
DANA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 210,579 people named Dana, 80.3% reported their origin as White, 9% as Black and 5.1% as Hispanic or Latino. 81.9% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Dana peaked in 1971, when 8,032 babies got the name.
At least 246,842 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Dana by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #103. The largest share of babies named Dana, 38.8%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Dana is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Dana has been most common in Maine (2.4×), District of Columbia (1.5×), and New Hampshire (1.4×), and least common in Utah (0.58×).
238,745 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Dana
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Dana, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Dana ranks #6,652 of 156,621, with 4,877 people. See Dana as a last name
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