Last name: DANA
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DANA : This last name is indexed 59,817 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
DANA : 1: Probably an altered form of English Dawney or Dawnay (see Dawn) cognates of French Daunay (see Donais).2: Czech and Slovak (Daňa); Polish and Hungarian: from a short form of the personal name Daniel (Hungarian Dániel) or perhaps from a short form of any of various Slavic compound personal names formed with the element dan ‘given’ for example Czech Danomír and Bohdan Polish Bogdan.3: Albanian: nickname or metonymic occupational name from danë (definite form dana) ‘pincers’.
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