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Female Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Dana m for the male version.
Usage
Old Norse
Old Danish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Icelandic
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
1) Female form of DanR and Dan 1 [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
2) Female form of Dan 3 [3] [4] [5] [6]
3) Short form of names beginning with Dan- [3] [4] [5] [6]
4) Short form of names ending with -dana
5) Female form of Dan 2 [6]
Related Names
See also Danika, Danita, Danuta
Male
Dönuson
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Female
Dönudóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Dana
|
Genitive: |
Danas
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Dana
|
Genitive: |
Danan
|
Partitive: |
Danaa
|
- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Dana
|
Accusative: |
Dönu
|
Dative: |
Dönu
|
Genitive: |
Dönu
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Dana
|
Genitive: |
Danas
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Dana
|
Genitive: |
Danas
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 209 people were named Dana f (percentage of first or only given name: 80 %) [9]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[10] |
|
1017 |
1297 |
783 |
987 |
234 |
310 |
Denmark[11] |
|
405 |
n.a. |
364 |
n.a. |
41 |
n.a. |
Finland[12] |
|
n.a. |
351 |
n.a. |
295 |
n.a. |
56 |
Iceland[13] |
|
27 |
46 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[14] |
|
19 |
58 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[15] |
|
326 |
n.a. |
242 |
n.a. |
84 |
n.a. |
#: count of main first name only |
&: count of both main and additional first names |
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |
Statistics as female name
Recent statistics trend[10][11][15][12]:
Sources: [10] [11] [15] [12]
References
- ↑ Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
- ↑ Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no