Danna
Meaning
modern variant of Dana
The story
Danna is Dana with the middle doubled, and its record holds two distinct lives. The first was quiet: a few hundred to a little over two thousand a decade from the 1940s through the 1980s, Dana's shadow years, before a fade to about 980 in the 1990s. Then the second life arrived on a different current entirely: about 4,500 in the 2000s, 6,954 in the 2010s, and already 5,215 so far this decade, three quarters of the full 2010s with years to run. The rise runs alongside the career of a Mexican pop and television star who wears the name; the record shows the timing, and timing is all a record can show. Dana, the source, counts about 246,700 across a century, nearly four girls to every boy; Danna counts about 25,200 and goes to girls almost entirely. Same bones, different music: the doubled letter turned out to be a different name in waiting.
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Danna peaked in the 2010s and the 2020s in nearly equal measure.
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Popularity in Brazil
494 people · the #13,495 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 500,000 · median age 15
Among people named Danna living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 2010s than in any other decade.
The census also counted 110 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
The Danna deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Danna truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Danna fits with your family’s names and surname.
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