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The first name 
Danna

Danna is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.

Danna – popular and common in the US

The name Danna isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Danna ranks 440. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 4 were named Danna. In the entire USA, approximately 17,648 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Danna. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Danna

What does the name 
Danna mean?

Danna is a feminine form of Daniel, derived from the Hebrew word “din’ēl” meaning ‘God jugdes’. It could also mean ‘God is mighty’, if derived from the Akkadian word “danānu-ēl”.

In the U.S., ... Danna has been known since the 1940s, but it was not until around 2010 that it became somewhat more common.

Danna has 5 letters 
and begins with a D

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is quite common as an initial letter for girls' names. To be precise, 5.6% of all girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.

With five letters, the name Danna is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Therefore: As 5.6% of all girls' names start with D, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with a D, Dorothy is the most common.

Other names with 
D, a, n, n and a

If you take all the letters in the name Danna – D, a, n, n and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Danan or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Danna

If your name is Danna and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Danna

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Danna, you can simply say:

Dinosaur

Apple

Nut

Nut

Apple

This is how the name Danna is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Danna in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Danna

Danna

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Danna

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Danna is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

D
A
N
N
A

Have you ever waved the name Danna

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

D
A
N
N
A

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Danna sounds like this: