Dana

Proper noun
Dana


 * 1)  of uncertain origin.
 * 2) (mostly U.S.)  derived from the surname.
 * 3) * 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.
 * 1)  usually interpreted as a form of Daniel, taken to use in the twentieth century; possibly borrowed from eastern Europe.

Translations

 * Czech:

Anagrams

 * aDNA
 * ANDA
 * nada

Etymology
Feminine form of the biblical name Dan:. Also a short form of Daniela: and Bohdana:.

Etymology
First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1969. From Daniela:.