Meaning not yet researched.
Dana: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 244 in 2025. Its best rank was #44 in 1971.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #44 in 1971; #1,027 in 2025. About 91% of babies named Dana in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,027 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1971, at #44.
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Dana: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 244 girls in 2025. Peak: #44 in 1971 · most girls in one year: 6,934 (1971).
In 2025, 244 US girls were named Dana, making it the 1,027th most common girls’ name of the year, up 52 places from #1,079 in 2024. That is 14 more than the 230 girls named Dana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #44, reached in 1971. That year also had the most girls given the name: 6,934. For comparison, it was #857 in 2015 and #248 in 1950.
In 2025, 25 US boys were named Dana, making it the 4,157th most common boys’ name of the year, up 67 places from #4,224 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 25 boys named Dana in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #165, reached in 1954. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,799, in 1962. For comparison, it was #3,096 in 2015 and #184 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dana in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 12 babies with the name. In all, 246,842 US babies have been given the name, 78% of them girls and 22% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 61,128 babies named Dana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,654 US girls were named Dana; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 322. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,587 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dana ranked highest in Missouri in 2025, at #660 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Dan (107,130 babies since 1880), Dane (33,979 babies since 1880), Dena (32,535 babies since 1880) and Danna (25,240 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Danah, Danaya and Danay are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Czech, Dutch, Italian, Latvian and Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Danah (1,050), Danaya (796), Danay (690), Daena (638), Dannah (620), Danai (431), Adana (267), Dayona (246), Dannae (232), Dauna (201), Danahi (131), Daana (92), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Dana in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 36 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | 8 | #660 | #996 |
| California | 41 | #758 | #726 |
| Virginia | 9 | #783 | #687 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #788 | #582 |
| Florida | 20 | #803 | #950 |
| New Jersey | 8 | #863 | #543 |
| Illinois | 10 | #864 | #1,002 |
| Michigan | 8 | #881 | #931 |
| New York | 16 | #951 | #671 |
| Texas | 30 | #958 | #782 |
| Ohio | 9 | #976 | #851 |
| North Carolina | 9 | #995 | #1,012 |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,013 | #741 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,015 | #864 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,082 | #1,119 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 244 | #1,027 | 25 | #4,157 |
| 2024 | 230 | #1,079 | 25 | #4,224 |
| 2023 | 264 | #976 | 21 | #4,777 |
| 2022 | 253 | #1,022 | 20 | #4,886 |
| 2021 | 231 | #1,081 | 25 | #4,139 |
| 2020 | 234 | #1,060 | 27 | #3,841 |
| 2019 | 278 | #953 | 33 | #3,436 |
| 2018 | 318 | #853 | 31 | #3,551 |
| 2017 | 280 | #943 | 30 | #3,604 |
| 2016 | 322 | #873 | 33 | #3,377 |
| 2015 | 326 | #857 | 37 | #3,096 |
| 2014 | 353 | #795 | 37 | #3,047 |
| 2013 | 373 | #733 | 29 | #3,599 |
| 2012 | 455 | #628 | 40 | #2,914 |
| 2011 | 469 | #617 | 40 | #2,913 |
| 2010 | 654 | #463 | 45 | #2,692 |
| 2009 | 574 | #528 | 57 | #2,295 |
| 2008 | 681 | #465 | 63 | #2,146 |
| 2007 | 728 | #441 | 74 | #1,915 |
| 2006 | 809 | #397 | 64 | #2,066 |
| 2005 | 791 | #397 | 74 | #1,778 |
| 2004 | 704 | #429 | 65 | #1,888 |
| 2003 | 800 | #379 | 78 | #1,615 |
| 2002 | 894 | #338 | 83 | #1,508 |
| 2001 | 945 | #329 | 99 | #1,317 |
| 2000 | 1,016 | #311 | 113 | #1,199 |
| 1999 | 1,323 | #239 | 113 | #1,158 |
| 1998 | 1,425 | #216 | 117 | #1,098 |
| 1997 | 1,683 | #179 | 151 | #906 |
| 1996 | 1,801 | #175 | 161 | #861 |
| 1995 | 1,757 | #170 | 186 | #785 |
| 1994 | 1,804 | #167 | 197 | #745 |
| 1993 | 1,988 | #155 | 246 | #656 |
| 1992 | 2,155 | #144 | 271 | #626 |
| 1991 | 2,412 | #131 | 335 | #554 |
| 1990 | 2,936 | #114 | 346 | #533 |
| 1989 | 2,997 | #105 | 358 | #505 |
| 1988 | 3,192 | #90 | 385 | #463 |
| 1987 | 3,422 | #83 | 419 | #429 |
| 1986 | 3,076 | #92 | 467 | #390 |
| 1985 | 3,348 | #82 | 482 | #375 |
| 1984 | 3,939 | #73 | 489 | #365 |
| 1983 | 3,926 | #72 | 476 | #369 |
| 1982 | 4,242 | #67 | 529 | #350 |
| 1981 | 4,246 | #70 | 542 | #339 |
| 1980 | 4,438 | #68 | 508 | #353 |
| 1979 | 4,948 | #54 | 627 | #311 |
| 1978 | 4,002 | #71 | 539 | #325 |
| 1977 | 4,339 | #62 | 638 | #304 |
| 1976 | 4,408 | #64 | 671 | #282 |
| 1975 | 4,619 | #62 | 858 | #239 |
| 1974 | 5,158 | #55 | 813 | #246 |
| 1973 | 4,934 | #59 | 1,013 | #216 |
| 1972 | 5,610 | #52 | 1,030 | #216 |
| 1971 | 6,934 | #44 | 1,098 | #213 |
| 1970 | 6,406 | #54 | 1,038 | #226 |
| 1969 | 6,025 | #60 | 1,006 | #228 |
| 1968 | 5,012 | #70 | 1,021 | #222 |
| 1967 | 4,935 | #71 | 1,028 | #218 |
| 1966 | 5,278 | #68 | 1,018 | #219 |
| 1965 | 4,722 | #78 | 1,216 | #206 |
| 1964 | 6,087 | #70 | 1,355 | #206 |
| 1963 | 5,048 | #88 | 1,621 | #181 |
| 1962 | 3,964 | #117 | 1,799 | #172 |
| 1961 | 3,544 | #128 | 1,693 | #180 |
| 1960 | 3,086 | #141 | 1,670 | #187 |
| 1959 | 2,970 | #143 | 1,694 | #180 |
| 1958 | 2,389 | #162 | 1,536 | #184 |
| 1957 | 2,408 | #155 | 1,619 | #186 |
| 1956 | 2,074 | #174 | 1,634 | #178 |
| 1955 | 1,568 | #202 | 1,571 | #176 |
| 1954 | 1,352 | #217 | 1,741 | #165 |
| 1953 | 1,196 | #230 | 1,505 | #178 |
| 1952 | 1,144 | #231 | 1,378 | #183 |
| 1951 | 1,077 | #235 | 1,284 | #185 |
| 1950 | 928 | #248 | 1,198 | #184 |
| 1949 | 853 | #260 | 1,079 | #192 |
| 1948 | 745 | #280 | 1,021 | #196 |
| 1947 | 716 | #292 | 945 | #208 |
| 1946 | 709 | #273 | 580 | #260 |
| 1945 | 645 | #268 | 340 | #323 |
| 1944 | 503 | #300 | 260 | #372 |
| 1943 | 417 | #350 | 186 | #462 |
| 1942 | 314 | #405 | 162 | #481 |
| 1941 | 282 | #409 | 144 | #490 |
| 1940 | 245 | #434 | 142 | #483 |
| 1939 | 169 | #514 | 144 | #475 |
| 1938 | 151 | #557 | 132 | #508 |
| 1937 | 150 | #544 | 133 | #498 |
| 1936 | 168 | #498 | 118 | #523 |
| 1935 | 128 | #566 | 120 | #528 |
| 1934 | 95 | #686 | 128 | #513 |
| 1933 | 108 | #629 | 134 | #484 |
| 1932 | 93 | #703 | 130 | #505 |
| 1931 | 95 | #684 | 130 | #503 |
| 1930 | 75 | #818 | 123 | #538 |
| 1929 | 87 | #753 | 122 | #527 |
| 1928 | 69 | #882 | 129 | #533 |
| 1927 | 84 | #792 | 141 | #513 |
| 1926 | 80 | #816 | 114 | #583 |
| 1925 | 78 | #843 | 116 | #578 |
| 1924 | 67 | #931 | 112 | #605 |
| 1923 | 80 | #819 | 110 | #607 |
| 1922 | 65 | #908 | 128 | #559 |
| 1921 | 89 | #776 | 107 | #611 |
| 1920 | 69 | #874 | 98 | #637 |
| 1919 | 51 | #1,011 | 83 | #682 |
| 1918 | 66 | #880 | 108 | #586 |
| 1917 | 55 | #934 | 97 | #605 |
| 1916 | 45 | #1,031 | 85 | #631 |
| 1915 | 37 | #1,125 | 89 | #610 |
| 1914 | 39 | #947 | 64 | #635 |
| 1913 | 22 | #1,185 | 53 | #605 |
| 1912 | 18 | #1,258 | 45 | #614 |
| 1911 | 13 | #1,324 | 26 | #600 |
| 1910 | 21 | #946 | 19 | #683 |
| 1909 | 13 | #1,164 | 16 | #689 |
| 1908 | 15 | #1,052 | 14 | #719 |
| 1907 | 11 | #1,224 | 15 | #675 |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,241 | 15 | #622 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,571 | 15 | #621 |
| 1904 | 11 | #1,109 | 11 | #733 |
| 1903 | 14 | #937 | 9 | #803 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,644 | 9 | #807 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,524 | 11 | #645 |
| 1900 | 20 | #838 | 19 | #560 |
| 1899 | 15 | #848 | 15 | #507 |
| 1898 | 12 | #1,017 | 9 | #756 |
| 1897 | 10 | #1,051 | 7 | #866 |
| 1896 | 13 | #911 | 10 | #735 |
| 1895 | 9 | #1,141 | 12 | #613 |
| 1894 | 7 | #1,260 | 13 | #572 |
| 1893 | 8 | #1,105 | 10 | #666 |
| 1892 | 8 | #1,105 | 10 | #697 |
| 1891 | 11 | #851 | 15 | #458 |
| 1890 | 7 | #1,119 | 7 | #824 |
| 1889 | — | — | 8 | #733 |
| 1888 | 8 | #974 | 6 | #948 |
| 1887 | — | — | 7 | #764 |
| 1886 | 8 | #851 | 8 | #713 |
| 1885 | 6 | #946 | 9 | #656 |
| 1884 | 10 | #694 | 11 | #579 |
| 1883 | 7 | #762 | 6 | #818 |
| 1882 | 6 | #835 | 14 | #497 |
| 1881 | — | — | 9 | #609 |
| 1880 | — | — | 12 | #539 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).