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The name Dana is of English origin, and means resident of Denmark. The table below indicates the number of times the name Dana has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Dana**
Use of the Name Dana for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
51,744	36,336	6,546	498	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Dana has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Dana**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	539	12	975	4
1881	610	9
1882	497	14	835	6
1883	818	6	762	7
1884	579	11	694	10
1885	656	9	947	6
1886	714	8	851	8
1887	765	7
1888	949	6	974	8
1889	733	8
1890	824	7
1891	458	15	852	11
1892	652	11
1893	666	10
1894	572	13
1895	614	12
1896	735	10	911	13
1897	868	7
1898	756	9
1899	507	15	848	15
1900	537	20	840	20
1901	645	11
1902	807	9
1903	804	9	938	14
1904	734	11
1905	621	15
1906	621	15
1907	675	15
1908	718	14
1909	688	16
1910	684	19	945	21
1911	598	26
1912	615	45
1913	610	52
1914	635	64	946	39
1915	611	89
1916	635	85
1917	601	98	944	54
1918	591	107	881	66
1919	680	83
1920	634	99	870	69
1921	611	107	773	89
1922	563	128	907	65
1923	606	110	817	80
1924	608	111	928	67
1925	575	117	838	79
1926	584	113	810	81
1927	513	141	794	84
1928	531	130	888	68
1929	525	122	758	86
1930	545	122	809	77
1931	502	131	683	95
1932	508	128	702	93
1933	485	133	629	108
1934	512	128	688	95
1935	527	120	566	128
1936	523	118	498	168
1937	500	132	544	150
1938	507	132	557	151
1939	473	144	515	169
1940	485	141	434	245
1941	482	147	407	282
1942	484	159	406	314
1943	458	186	349	420
1944	372	262	300	503
1945	323	338	270	639
1946	260	577	273	710
1947	207	946	292	716
1948	195	1,019	280	744
1949	192	1,077	261	851
1950	184	1,202	248	927
1951	185	1,272	235	1,072
1952	183	1,381	231	1,145
1953	178	1,500	229	1,194
1954	166	1,733	217	1,352
1955	177	1,567	202	1,569
1956	178	1,634	174	2,077
1957	186	1,613	155	2,409
1958	184	1,532	162	2,387
1959	180	1,696	144	2,966
1960	187	1,673	141	3,090
1961	180	1,691	128	3,542
1962	172	1,790	117	3,963
1963	181	1,620	88	5,043
1964	205	1,357	70	6,087
1965	205	1,219	77	4,727
1966	219	1,016	68	5,268
1967	217	1,032	71	4,934
1968	222	1,016	70	5,009
1969	228	1,008	59	6,028
1970	226	1,039	54	6,397
1971	213	1,098	44	6,926
1972	217	1,030	52	5,600
1973	216	1,011	59	4,932
1974	247	813	55	5,155
1975	239	859	62	4,614
1976	282	671	64	4,407
1977	303	639	62	4,335
1978	325	539	70	4,001
1979	311	627	54	4,945
1980	353	507	68	4,437
1981	339	542	70	4,245
1982	350	530	67	4,229
1983	368	475	72	3,918
1984	365	489	73	3,939
1985	375	482	82	3,346
1986	390	466	91	3,074
1987	429	419	83	3,416
1988	462	386	90	3,187
1989	505	357	105	3,003
1990	532	347	114	2,929
1991	553	334	131	2,417
1992	627	271	144	2,155
1993	655	246	155	1,988
1994	745	197	167	1,802
1995	785	186	169	1,757
1996	860	161	174	1,798
1997	904	151	179	1,682
1998			214	1,424
1999			237	1,321
2000			311	1,014
2001			328	941
2002			337	889
2003			379	794
2004			427	696
Totals:		51,744		184,230

During the last 125 years, parents have used Dana as a boy's name about 21% of the time and more frequently (about 78% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Dana appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 118 times during the last 125 years.

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