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Dana - What does it mean?

Definition of 'Dana'

English

Proper noun

(en-proper noun)
  • of uncertain origin.
  • (chiefly|US) derived from the surname.
  • * 1971 J. Anthony Lukas, Don't Shoot — We Are Your Children , Random House, ISBN 0394462874, page 419:
  • Johnie had become a "problem" for the advosers and "baby deans" in University Hall: men with marvelously Puritan names like Dana Cotton and Christopher Wadsworth called him in and asked what the trouble was.
  • usually interpreted as a form of Daniel, taken to use in the twentieth century; possibly borrowed from eastern Europe.
  • A village in Illinois
  • A town in Indiana
  • A city/town in Iowa
  • Anagrams

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    Similar to 'Dana'

    Diana, Donna, Dina, Duna, Dyana, Doona, Dima, Dawna