How popular is “Dana” in the USA?

Number of people named “Dana” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Dana” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Dana” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Dana” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Dana” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Dana” by birth year

This chart shows how “Dana” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1880	12	0.000059558		12	-100%
1881	9	0.000046708		9	-100%
1882	20	0.00009028	6	14	-40%
1883	13	0.000059923	7	6	8%
1884	21	0.000086256	10	11	-5%
1885	15	0.000062278	6	9	-20%
1886	16	0.000062667	8	8	0%
1887	7	0.000028295		7	-100%
1888	14	0.000046749	8	6	14%
1889	8	0.000027687		8	-100%
1890	14	0.00004645	7	7	0%
1891	26	0.000090696	11	15	-15%
1892	18	0.000053832	8	10	-11%
1893	18	0.000055347	8	10	-11%
1894	20	0.000059051	7	13	-30%
1895	21	0.000059826	9	12	-14%
1896	23	0.000064339	13	10	13%
1897	17	0.000048997	10	7	18%
1898	21	0.000055052	12	9	14%
1899	30	0.000088435	15	15	0%
1900	39	0.000086617	20	19	3%
1901	17	0.00004916	6	11	-29%
1902	15	0.000038786	6	9	-20%
1903	23	0.000060336	14	9	22%
1904	22	0.000054525	11	11	0%
1905	22	0.000051896	7	15	-36%
1906	25	0.00005835	10	15	-20%
1907	26	0.000055867	11	15	-15%
1908	29	0.000059347	15	14	3%
1909	29	0.000056727	13	16	-10%
1910	40	0.000067715	21	19	5%
1911	39	0.000060533	13	26	-33%
1912	63	0.000063761	18	45	-43%
1913	75	0.000065957	22	53	-41%
1914	103	0.000072722	39	64	-24%
1915	126	0.000068761	37	89	-41%
1916	130	0.000067204	45	85	-31%
1917	152	0.000075744	55	97	-28%
1918	174	0.000080143	66	108	-24%
1919	134	0.0000635	51	83	-24%
1920	167	0.000073807	69	98	-17%
1921	196	0.000083958	89	107	-9%
1922	193	0.000084311	65	128	-33%
1923	190	0.00008252	80	110	-16%
1924	179	0.000075159	67	112	-25%
1925	194	0.000083144	78	116	-20%
1926	194	0.000084498	80	114	-18%
1927	225	0.00009701	84	141	-25%
1928	198	0.000087574	69	129	-30%
1929	209	0.00009534	87	122	-17%
1930	198	0.000089057	75	123	-24%
1931	225	0.000106919	95	130	-16%
1932	223	0.000105623	93	130	-17%
1933	242	0.000121033	108	134	-11%
1934	223	0.000107376	95	128	-15%
1935	248	0.000118666	128	120	3%
1936	286	0.00013766	168	118	17%
1937	283	0.000132822	150	133	6%
1938	283	0.000127905	151	132	7%
1939	313	0.00014205	169	144	8%
1940	387	0.000168065	245	142	27%
1941	426	0.000174846	282	144	32%
1942	476	0.000174243	314	162	32%
1943	603	0.000213636	417	186	38%
1944	763	0.000283635	503	260	32%
1945	985	0.00037129	645	340	31%
1946	1289	0.000403404	709	580	10%
1947	1661	0.000461091	716	945	-14%
1948	1766	0.000511511	745	1021	-16%
1949	1932	0.000554412	853	1079	-12%
1950	2126	0.000606846	928	1198	-13%
1951	2360	0.000640653	1077	1283	-9%
1952	2524	0.000664559	1144	1380	-9%
1953	2700	0.000700636	1196	1504	-11%
1954	3093	0.000776997	1352	1741	-13%
1955	3139	0.000781803	1568	1571	-0%
1956	3708	0.000899337	2074	1634	12%
1957	4027	0.000958321	2408	1619	20%
1958	3924	0.000949224	2388	1536	22%
1959	4664	0.001121695	2971	1693	27%
1960	4760	0.001145935	3087	1673	30%
1961	5236	0.001264032	3543	1693	35%
1962	5760	0.001427378	3964	1796	38%
1963	6670	0.001685109	5049	1621	51%
1964	7441	0.001914032	6086	1355	64%
1965	5938	0.001637866	4722	1216	59%
1966	6296	0.001811457	5278	1018	68%
1967	5962	0.001756165	4934	1028	66%
1968	6034	0.001786046	5013	1021	66%
1969	7031	0.002023121	6025	1006	71%
1970	7443	0.002063766	6405	1038	72%
1971	8032	0.002340084	6934	1098	73%
1972	6641	0.002112953	5611	1030	69%
1973	5947	0.001971237	4934	1013	66%
1974	5972	0.001964474	5159	813	73%
1975	5478	0.001814271	4620	858	69%
1976	5079	0.001673862	4408	671	74%
1977	4977	0.001566822	4339	638	74%
1978	4542	0.00143106	4003	539	76%
1979	5575	0.001675684	4948	627	78%
1980	4946	0.00143591	4438	508	79%
1981	4788	0.001384065	4246	542	77%
1982	4770	0.001359764	4241	529	78%
1983	4402	0.001271028	3926	476	78%
1984	4428	0.001269221	3939	489	78%
1985	3830	0.001073097	3348	482	75%
1986	3543	0.000996042	3076	467	74%
1987	3841	0.001065283	3422	419	78%
1988	3577	0.000968054	3192	385	78%
1989	3355	0.000872687	2997	358	79%
1990	3282	0.000830365	2936	346	79%
1991	2747	0.000705215	2412	335	76%
1992	2426	0.000631561	2155	271	78%
1993	2234	0.000592529	1988	246	78%
1994	2002	0.000538512	1805	197	80%
1995	1942	0.000530289	1756	186	81%
1996	1962	0.000537948	1801	161	84%
1997	1834	0.000505826	1683	151	84%
1998	1542	0.000419226	1425	117	85%
1999	1435	0.000388482	1322	113	84%
2000	1129	0.000298685	1016	113	80%
2001	1044	0.000278892	945	99	81%
2002	977	0.000261349	894	83	83%
2003	878	0.000230912	800	78	82%
2004	769	0.00020126	704	65	83%
2005	865	0.000224977	791	74	83%
2006	873	0.000220667	809	64	85%
2007	802	0.000200616	728	74	82%
2008	744	0.000189281	681	63	83%
2009	631	0.000165176	574	57	82%
2010	699	0.000189137	654	45	87%
2011	509	0.000139155	469	40	84%
2012	495	0.000135343	455	40	84%
2013	402	0.000110268	373	29	86%
2014	390	0.000105224	353	37	81%
2015	363	0.000098084	326	37	80%
2016	355	0.000096765	322	33	81%
2017	309	0.000086405	279	30	81%
2018	349	0.000099263	318	31	82%
2019	311	0.000089601	278	33	79%
2020	261	0.00007813	234	27	79%
2021	256	0.000075562	231	25	80%
2022	273	0.000080694	253	20	85%
2023	285	0.000086072	264	21	85%
2024	255	0.000076611	230	25	80%

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