*RELATIVES*
*ALLIES*
*FAMOUS DANAS*
*FICTIONAL DANAS*
*SONGS FOR DANA*
***THE GOLD STANDARD***
(“dana” is a given name used for both females and males)
(it was among the 100 most popular names given to girls born in the United States between 1960 and 1990)
(it has since fallen in popularity and was ranked the 446th most popular name given to girls born in the United States in 2007)
(as a male forename it is well known in the United States, being in the 314th rank out of 1,219 in the “1990 U.S. Census”)
(the name has multiple derivations)
(it may come from “Dane” (from Denmark), the meaning of the common surname)
(it is also occasionally regarded as a feminine version of ‘Daniel’ or a short version of feminine names such as ‘Bogdana’ or ‘Yordana’)
(‘Dana’ is also an alternate spelling of the name for ‘Danu’, a Celtic fertility goddess)
(in Persian, the word literally means “knowledgeable”, and some speculate that the name is first used as a first name in “Shahnameh”)
(it may also refer to the mountain ‘Dana’ or ‘Dena’)
(the name is used in Persian for both female and male sexes)
(“Dana” or Danah, in Arabic, means “the most perfectly sized, valuable and beautiful pearl”)
(this name is used mainly by Arabs of the Persian Gulf (Eastern Arabia), due to their traditional pearl diving professions wherein they gave different type of pearls names)
(it is used in the arab world as a female name)
(in Hebrew, the name Dana means “arbiter” or “God is my judge”)
(in ‘sanskrit’ and pali, the word means “generosity”)