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How popular is the name Dana?

Births per year, rank history and how many Danas are alive today.

Dana (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 894th in 2025 with 39 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 1997, when 201 babies were given the name, the 210th most popular that year. It has declined since 1997; the 2025 figure is roughly 19% of its peak. Numbers have been rising in recent years. Dana is one spelling of a name also recorded as Dayna; the combined figures below cover every spelling.

Across all spellings of the name, the Dana you are most likely to meet is around 30 years old. Half of all Danas born in England and Wales are between 21 and 34, and there are at least 4,200 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 1.3% chance that at least one of them will be called Dana.

How many babies are named Dana each year?

Includes all spellings: Dana, Dayna. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Dana spelling rank?

Where does the Dayna spelling rank?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.