In 2025, 237 US girls were named Dafne, making it the 1,047th most common girls’ name of the year, down 174 places from #873 in 2024. That is 72 fewer than the 309 girls named Dafne in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #873, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 309. For comparison, it was #2,095 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dafne in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1988 with 11 babies. In all, 3,523 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,201 babies named Dafne.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,512 US girls were named Dafne; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 309. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,782 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dafne ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #453 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Daphne (44,189 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Dafney are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.