Dana
Dana is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 230 births. Its best rank was 44th, in 1971.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2300.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19716,934 births
- Best rank
- #44in 1971
- Since 1882
- 246,572people given the name
The story in the numbers
193,311 girls have been named Dana in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1971, with 6,934 births — 0.42% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 230 births in 2024, against 6,934 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1973, and the 1970s alone account for 27%. It has spent 116 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 26 of them in the top 100.
Dana is used for both sexes: 22% of its bearers are boys (53,261), most of them born around 1962.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Dana | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 45 | |
| 1890s | 100 | |
| 1900s | 113 | |
| 1910s | 367 | |
| 1920s | 768 | |
| 1930s | 1,232 | |
| 1940s | 5,429 | |
| 1950s | 17,106 | |
| 1960s | 47,701 | |
| 1970s | 51,361 | |
| 1980s | 36,825 | |
| 1990s | 19,283 | |
| 2000s | 7,942 | |
| 2010s | 3,827 | |
| 2020s | 1,212 |
In 1971, its biggest year
Dana was the 44th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1971 were Jennifer, Michelle, Lisa, Kimberly and Amy. See all of 1971.
Names that rose and fell with Dana
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Charissepeak 1971
- Leighpeak 1969
- Jeanapeak 1970
- Rochellpeak 1971
- Jeannapeak 1970
- Deedrapeak 1970
- Jeninepeak 1970
- Tamarapeak 1970
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.