Dena is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Dena is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Dena. In the SmartGenius ranking, Dena is #3,558 on the list of most common girls names. In the entire USA, approximately 26,503 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Dena. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Dena annualy. This means that there have been girls named Dena who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Dena have consistently been special. A small flight of popularity was experienced by the name way back in the last century and in one particular year, parents liked Dena even more than any other time: in 1970, it holds its present record of #203 in the ranking of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Dena was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Dena has never been ranked higher than #203. In 2022, she rivaled the 3,717 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 34 girls named Dena were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Dena were born, there have been 142 newborns who received this name.
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 four letters, the name Dena is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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.
If your name is Dena 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Dena, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Elephant
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Dena
Dena
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
D
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N
A
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
E
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A
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. Dena sounds like this:
