I like this spelling over Dayana, because the "i" looks like a sparkle of a Diamond. Diana almost sounds like the precious stone in English and French. The semetic meanings of Dayana, which has the same pronunciation as English Diana: Hebrew from Dayan [ דיין --> דַּיָּנָה ]: Judge. Arabic [ دايانا ] : root Dayan means "eternal" (well, the opposite of dying), also religions; faiths. Apparently in Persian Dayana [ دايانا ] means "gold" The Latin pronunciation Dee-anna does bring the meaning of ancient goddesses on the one hand, but on the other, from Dean (Latin): a church official, or valley (Anglo-Saxon)
Possible links to the Hebrew name Dinah. Dinah meaning "God has judged". Has a similar pronunciation with the modern pronunciation. Dinah is usually pronounced DEE-nah or DIE-nah while Diana is usually pronounced DIE-ann-a or DEE-ann-ah. They are very much the same and I believe that the old biblical hebrew and the old Roman merged to form the new modern name.
Probably derived from an old Indo-European root meaning "heavenly, divine", related to dyeus (see ZEUS). --Taking this a step further, the Indo-European Roots section of my American Heritage Dictionary relates this to the root deiw-, to shine, from which derives sky, heavens, god. Their discussion of Diana regards the suffixed root *deiw-yo, 'luminous' to be the direct root of Diana and the variant *dyeu- the root of Zeus.
The semetic meanings of Dayana, which has the same pronunciation as English Diana:
Hebrew from Dayan [ דיין --> דַּיָּנָה ]: Judge.
Arabic [ دايانا ] : root Dayan means "eternal" (well, the opposite of dying), also religions; faiths.
Apparently in Persian Dayana [ دايانا ] means "gold"
The Latin pronunciation Dee-anna does bring the meaning of ancient goddesses on the one hand, but on the other, from Dean (Latin): a church official, or valley (Anglo-Saxon)