Dewanna
Meaning of Dewanna
Dewanna, a feminine given name chiefly documented in mid-twentieth-century America, appears to have originated as a variant of Deanna—itself a synthesis of the Latin Diana and the Hebrew Anna—while its orthography simultaneously evokes the English noun “dew,” thereby imbuing the name with semantic associations of freshness and nascent vitality. United States Social Security Administration records trace Dewanna’s sporadic emergence in the early 1930s, followed by a gradual ascent that culminated in the early 1980s when annual registrations briefly exceeded twenty births, before a steady decline to fewer than ten occurrences per year by the late 1990s relegated it outside the top 800 names. Pronounced /dəˈwɑnə/ in American English, the name’s phonological profile aligns with standard Anglo-American patterns, and its sustained yet limited presence in official data underscores its appeal to parents seeking an uncommon given name that remains firmly rooted in familiar cultural and linguistic traditions.
Pronunciation
American English
- Pronunced as duh-WAH-nuh (/dəˈwɑnə/)
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