Dana — #1075 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Dana

The Social Security Administration has registered 193,311 babies named Dana between 1882 and 2024, spanning 143 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Dana currently holds the #1075 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1971, when 6,934 babies received it in a single year. Dana is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 53,261 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dana performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 51,361 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Dana shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 19,414 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Dana in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dana in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 193,311 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.