Girl

Dafne

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#1,047
237 girls
2015
#2,095
rank
1950
—
not ranked

Dafne: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 237 in 2025. Its best rank was #873 in 2024.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #873 in 2024; #1,047 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dafne in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#1,047 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #873.

Babies in 2025
237
Since 1880
3,523
Years on record
38

Babies named Dafne, every year since 1880

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Girls

Dafne: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 237 girls in 2025. Peak: #873 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 309 (2024).

About the name Dafne

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

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Dafney (90).

Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Dafne in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Dafne by state, 2025

US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 35 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
New Jersey17#453—
South Carolina9#529—
Maryland8#611—
Tennessee11#659—
Kentucky6#674—
Colorado7#727—
Florida19#832#2,162
Arizona7#838—
Texas31#926#908
Virginia7#963—
California28#979#1,391
Illinois8#1,044—
North Carolina8#1,083—
New York12#1,181#1,815
Georgia7#1,245—
Pennsylvania6#1,268—

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
2025237#1,047——
2024309#873——
2023248#1,020——
2022160#1,415——
2021106#1,876——
202079#2,261——
201983#2,221——
201899#1,982——
201798#2,011——
201693#2,097——
201593#2,095——
2014154#1,460——
201389#2,127——
201285#2,213——
201186#2,197——
2010106#1,901——
2009107#1,953——
2008125#1,764——
2007124#1,746——
2006107#1,898——
2005114#1,732——
2004120#1,619——
2003105#1,788——
2002117#1,588——
2001224#968——
200058#2,574——
199922#4,901——
199822#4,826——
199717#5,684——
199615#6,135——
199519#5,062——
199419#5,069——
199315#6,020——
199216#5,780——
199119#5,035——
199011#7,418——
198911#7,075——
198811#6,743——

About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).