Entry № 2287 · Hebrew origin

Dana Dana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DAY-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Judgment / God is my judge (Dana Delany; Queen Latifah's birth name)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "judgment / god is my judge (dana delany; queen latifah's birth name)".

Dana is the English feminine of Daniel — from the Hebrew Daniyyel ("God is my judge") — used as a unisex name in 20th-century America. Dana Carvey is male. Dana Loesch — American political commentator. Dana Scully — covered separately under Gillian Anderson (Scully's first name was Dana Katherine Scully).

Judgment / God is my judge (Dana Delany; Queen Latifah's birth name) — a Hebrew name.

The name in its native script.

Dana
Transliteration
Dana
Pronunciation
/ ˈdeɪ.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Dana stands.

Dana does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Danas before her.

Real people
Dana Delany
American Emmy actress.
born 1956
Queen Latifah
American Oscar-nominated rapper.
born 1970
Dana Plato
American actress.
1964 – 1999
Dana Walden
American media executive.
born 1964
In fiction
Colleen McMurphy
China Beach.
1988

Names connected to Dana.

The number behind Dana.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Dana reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.