Dayna Manning is a Canadian folk and pop singer-songwriter, as well as a producer and sound engineer. As a teenager she released her first album, Volume 1, on EMI and Nettwerk, with featured musicians including Sean Lennon and Melanie Doane. A single from the album reached No. 15 on the MuchMusic top hits chart in Canada, and she was nominated for the 1998 Juno Award for Best New Artist.
Dayna Smith is an American photojournalist. She worked at The Washington Post for 21 years before going freelance. In 1999 she won World Press Photo of the Year. Smith is one of only four women to have won the award since it was first given in 1955.
Dayna Bowen Matthew is an American legal scholar, author, and academic administrator currently serving as dean and Harold H. Greene Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. Her legal scholarship has focused primarily on racial disparities in healthcare and civil rights law.
I have ALWAYS loved my name! The Y made it unique and has always been a source of confusion to many people in pronunciation. How they get "Danya" (dyslexic) is most common. I have only met other Dayna's (not Dana) who have been European. I am in my 60's, and I like that my name is not following a fad.
I think it's better than Dana because the Y gives it security. That way it won't seem like Dan'ah, Dan as in Danny. I really think this name is better suited for a girl, the A at the end. It sounds pretty, feminine, and even mature. I can't forget "Dana Scully" the character from the X Files tv show. That's the first thing that comes to mind with this name.
― Anonymous User 5/19/2010
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It's a pretty name.
― Anonymous User 2/2/2007
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Dayna is a very pretty name for a girl. This spelling is also quite nice.
― Anonymous User 10/9/2006
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I think this is just the ugliest name. I mean seriously.
― Anonymous User 9/17/2006
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I like this spelling better than Dana. It seems more feminine (even though I don't think Dana is a very good masculine name).
― Anonymous User 8/25/2005
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