Dęna
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dęna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Modern coinage, representing either a respelling of )Dina, or else a form created as a feminine version of )Dean.
- USUnited States1 in 13K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 58K
- NLNetherlands1 in 73K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 77 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
25,907 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Dena in US United States.
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.
Sources 2
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dęna 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 | 25,907 | 1 in 13K | 26K | Dena | 77 |
| NL Netherlands | 236 | 1 in 73K | 236 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 109 | 1 in 1.9M | 114 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 72 | 1 in 142K | 72 | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | 45 | 1 in 1.1M | 84 | — | 1 |
| HR Croatia | 17 | 1 in 249K | 20 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 13 | 1 in 58K | 13 | — | — |
25,907 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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dęna 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 and Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft).
- Is Dęna a male or female name?
- Dęna is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Dęna have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 26 thousand people named Dęna, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dena.
- Where is Dęna most common?
- Dęna is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 13 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Dęna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 25,907 people named Dęna in 2020, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C4%99naThe 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, “Dęna”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.