Dena
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Modern coinage, representing either a respelling of Dina, or else a form created as a feminine version of Dean (A concise dictionary of first names)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 34 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Dena is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 30th most common given name. Dena is also written Дина in Cyrillic, דיאנה in Hebrew and Դիանա in Armenian.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 9K(inferred from the name graph)
- CZCzechia1 in 105as Dana
- MDMoldova1 in 155as Diana
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Dena itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #71 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 604 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.0K (inferred from the name graph)
422,752 named Diane, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Egypt, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Dena in other scripts: Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew and 6 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Diane in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 1 more, Dina in CZ Czechia, Dayana in EC Ecuador and Diana in GE Georgia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Modern coinage, representing either a respelling of Dina, or else a form created as a feminine version of Dean.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Dena, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dena counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #30 | 422,752as Diane | 1 in 787 | 422K | Diane | 604 |
| GB United Kingdom | #45 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 382 | 51 | Diane | 299 |
| CA Canada | #21 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 397 | 14 | Diane | 295 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 101,562as Dana | 1 in 105 | 102K | Dina | 41 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 91,742as Diana | 1 in 184 | 92K | Dayana | 70 |
| MD Moldova | — | 21,754as Diana | 1 in 155 | 22K | — | 52 |
| EG Egypt | #261 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 9K | — | Diane | 84 |
| GE Georgia | #105 | 10,736as დიანა | 1 in 372 | 11K | Diana | 65 |
422,752 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; MVČR — living population register 2017; INEC — civil registry names; e-services.md — living population register; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Dena is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In men, ? a kind of water-lily (Sch). From own information a tree, but not described. A water-lily. Leaf round kidney
as a wordMende Natural History Vocabulary
English: modern coinage, representing either a respelling of DINA , or else a form created as a feminine version of DEAN .
as a word
In ang, nominative/accusative/genitive plural of dene
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, decade of the rosary
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, inflection of dēnus:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Dena Dietrichb. 1928USAmerican actress (1928-2020)
- Sabib. 1987USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer, songwriter and actress
- Dena Kaplanb. 1989ZASouth African-Australian actress and dancer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)61 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 34 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Dena?
- In the etymology graph, Dene is a form of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Dena mean, and where does it come from?
- Modern coinage, representing either a respelling of Dina, or else a form created as a feminine version of Dean. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Which countries have the most people named Dena?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 423 thousand people named Diane, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, Czechia and Ecuador; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Is Dena a male or female name?
- Dena is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Netherlands (Meertens NVB) and Brazil (IBGE).
- How common is the name Dena?
- In the United States, the national register counted 422,752 people named Diane in 2020, about 1 in 787 residents.
- How common is Dena compared with other names?
- In the United States, Dena is the 30th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dena?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/denaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dena” — ranked 110th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.