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Dana Scully is the name of the female agent played by Gillian Anderson on the TV show The X Files.

Dana's Valley is a book by Janette Oke and Laurel Oke Logan. It's about a girl named Erin and her sister's name is Dana.

This isn't short form of Polish "Bogdana". We don't use that name.

I think this is a very nice name, delicate but not weak. To me personally, I find this name too feminine for a boy.

Dana Barrett is a character, played by Sigourney Weaver in Ghostbusters amd Ghostbusters 2.

Dana Scallon represented Ireland with "All Kinds of Everything" in 1970 and won the Eurovision Song Contest. She had a couple of more hits throughout the 1970s.
A famous bearer is also late Dana Hill, star of "European Vacation (1985)" with Chevy Chase.

Dana Foster is character´s name from the TV series "Step by Step". She played by Staci Keanan.

Listen to the German pronunciation of Dana here:
http://www.nordicnames.de/Aussprache.html

Dana, for a girl, was used more during the 60's, 70's and 80's.

Dana is a feminine Bulgarian name too. It is also used as a short form of Bogdana. [noted -ed]

'La tribu de Dana' is a song by Manau.

The pronunciation written here works for Czech, too. [noted -ed]
One famous Czech bearer is Dana Zátopková, athlete, who won on the Olympic games in Helsinki 1952 - just like her husband, Emil Zátopek, did.

It's not a Polish name at all. There's "Dania" which is the diminutive form for "Danuta" but Dana and Dania are quite distinct and not at all the interchangeable.

I really hate this name for a guy.

I was ALMOST named Dana (Dana For A Day, my mom always says) and I wish I had been. Instead, I got stuck with Megan, which is overly popular and I hate it, a lot. I'd much rather be named Dana, it's very pretty and I don't know anybody who goes by it.

Dana is also used in Hebrew.

Also used in South Africa as a strictly masculine nickname for Daniel, and pronounced DAH-nah.

Dana Wynter (pronounced DAH-na), born Dagmar Winter, is a German-born, British-raised U.S. actress.

I like this name a lot pronounced as DAH-nah, it is like an alternative to the overused Donna. I think I will name a book character this. I don't like it pronounced DAY-na, that to me is a last name (Any one else remember the Dana Girls Mysteries?)