Dena

girls:

32.4k births since 1880

#782 (86th percentile)

boys:

56 births since 1964

#4530 (1st percentile)

overall:

32.5k births since 1880

#1408 (82nd percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dena".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
32,413
Peak Births
1,541
Peak Year
1970
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
73.3%
Current Percentile
2.1%
Peak Rank
#199
Current Rank
#927
Female statistics
Total Births
56
Peak Births
10
Peak Year
1989
First Recorded
1964
Peak Percentile
0.8%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#642
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Dena

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Dena. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 68.5% confident that Dena is pronounced as DEE-nuh. The next most likely pronunciation is DEH-nuh, at 31.5% confidence.

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68.5%
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31.5%
DEH-nuh (2 syllables)
31.5% confidence
D EH1 N AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Dena. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Dena, please vote using the thumbs up button.

DEE-uh-nuh (3 syllables)
5 names 4.2k births
D IY1 AH0 N AH0
DEE-nee-uh (3 syllables)
5 names 1.4k births
D IY1 N IY0 AH0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like D IY1 N AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.