Meaning not yet researched.
Daphne: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,740 in 2025. Its best rank was #178 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Daphne in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#178 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Daphne: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,740 girls in 2025. Peak: #178 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 1,740 (2025).
In 2025, 1,740 US girls were named Daphne, making it the 178th most common girls’ name of the year, up 15 places from #193 in 2024. That is 172 more than the 1,568 girls named Daphne in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #178, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,740. For comparison, it was #378 in 2015 and #513 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Daphne in 140 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1886 with 6 babies. In all, 44,189 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 7,768 babies named Daphne.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 10,735 US girls were named Daphne; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,740. In 2025 that was about 1 in 924 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Daphne ranked highest in Vermont in 2025, at #77 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 2 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Dafne (3,523 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Daphine, Daphna and Daphanie are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Daph and Daphie.
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 Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Daphine (1,497), Daphna (648), Daphanie (466), Dafina (133), Dafna (79), Daffne (52), Daphny (48), Dafnne (33).
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 6 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vermont | 5 | #77 | — |
| District of Columbia | 9 | #78 | — |
| Utah | 41 | #102 | #189 |
| Oregon | 31 | #110 | #262 |
| Alaska | 6 | #116 | — |
| Colorado | 44 | #122 | #283 |
| Idaho | 16 | #125 | — |
| Connecticut | 23 | #132 | — |
| Maine | 8 | #134 | #166 |
| Maryland | 34 | #137 | #324 |
| New Jersey | 54 | #145 | #407 |
| Massachusetts | 38 | #149 | #362 |
| Virginia | 51 | #153 | #443 |
| North Carolina | 66 | #153 | #377 |
| Washington | 46 | #156 | #244 |
| Oklahoma | 24 | #157 | #484 |
| Arizona | 40 | #159 | #331 |
| New York | 101 | #162 | #371 |
| California | 191 | #165 | #303 |
| Arkansas | 18 | #167 | #521 |
| Texas | 190 | #174 | #489 |
| Montana | 6 | #174 | — |
| South Carolina | 27 | #174 | #474 |
| Florida | 100 | #176 | #432 |
| Michigan | 49 | #177 | #251 |
| Iowa | 18 | #177 | #337 |
| Ohio | 62 | #182 | #362 |
| Nevada | 14 | #182 | #470 |
| Kansas | 18 | #185 | #258 |
| Minnesota | 29 | #186 | #281 |
| Kentucky | 24 | #197 | #400 |
| Tennessee | 39 | #197 | #587 |
| Georgia | 53 | #202 | #1,091 |
| Pennsylvania | 56 | #203 | #392 |
| North Dakota | 5 | #207 | — |
| West Virginia | 8 | #210 | — |
| Indiana | 33 | #211 | #358 |
| New Hampshire | 6 | #214 | — |
| Wisconsin | 26 | #215 | #269 |
| Louisiana | 20 | #215 | #548 |
| New Mexico | 7 | #221 | — |
| Missouri | 26 | #242 | #426 |
| Nebraska | 9 | #250 | #281 |
| Illinois | 38 | #279 | #402 |
| Alabama | 15 | #325 | #721 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,740 | #178 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,568 | #193 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,266 | #241 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,132 | #281 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,103 | #289 | — | — |
| 2020 | 753 | #415 | — | — |
| 2019 | 734 | #435 | — | — |
| 2018 | 808 | #384 | — | — |
| 2017 | 812 | #385 | — | — |
| 2016 | 819 | #407 | — | — |
| 2015 | 864 | #378 | — | — |
| 2014 | 919 | #355 | — | — |
| 2013 | 777 | #396 | — | — |
| 2012 | 744 | #421 | — | — |
| 2011 | 673 | #451 | — | — |
| 2010 | 618 | #489 | — | — |
| 2009 | 649 | #477 | — | — |
| 2008 | 571 | #539 | — | — |
| 2007 | 512 | #584 | — | — |
| 2006 | 478 | #611 | — | — |
| 2005 | 520 | #554 | — | — |
| 2004 | 478 | #589 | — | — |
| 2003 | 460 | #594 | — | — |
| 2002 | 465 | #569 | — | — |
| 2001 | 597 | #466 | — | — |
| 2000 | 396 | #633 | — | — |
| 1999 | 324 | #696 | — | — |
| 1998 | 284 | #758 | — | — |
| 1997 | 244 | #843 | — | — |
| 1996 | 241 | #832 | — | — |
| 1995 | 225 | #863 | — | — |
| 1994 | 280 | #743 | — | — |
| 1993 | 210 | #914 | — | — |
| 1992 | 220 | #894 | — | — |
| 1991 | 223 | #884 | — | — |
| 1990 | 268 | #765 | — | — |
| 1989 | 222 | #843 | — | — |
| 1988 | 277 | #692 | — | — |
| 1987 | 238 | #754 | — | — |
| 1986 | 245 | #726 | — | — |
| 1985 | 276 | #657 | — | — |
| 1984 | 281 | #630 | — | — |
| 1983 | 305 | #585 | — | — |
| 1982 | 296 | #606 | — | — |
| 1981 | 273 | #647 | — | — |
| 1980 | 286 | #637 | — | — |
| 1979 | 300 | #601 | — | — |
| 1978 | 301 | #571 | — | — |
| 1977 | 347 | #528 | — | — |
| 1976 | 440 | #443 | — | — |
| 1975 | 383 | #479 | — | — |
| 1974 | 503 | #402 | — | — |
| 1973 | 536 | #382 | — | — |
| 1972 | 556 | #383 | — | — |
| 1971 | 778 | #335 | — | — |
| 1970 | 683 | #360 | — | — |
| 1969 | 641 | #362 | — | — |
| 1968 | 640 | #351 | — | — |
| 1967 | 605 | #364 | — | — |
| 1966 | 617 | #365 | — | — |
| 1965 | 641 | #357 | — | — |
| 1964 | 766 | #344 | — | — |
| 1963 | 927 | #306 | — | — |
| 1962 | 1,131 | #266 | 7 | #3,376 |
| 1961 | 670 | #371 | — | — |
| 1960 | 295 | #573 | — | — |
| 1959 | 318 | #545 | — | — |
| 1958 | 393 | #478 | — | — |
| 1957 | 314 | #541 | — | — |
| 1956 | 261 | #582 | — | — |
| 1955 | 250 | #578 | — | — |
| 1954 | 259 | #554 | — | — |
| 1953 | 257 | #540 | — | — |
| 1952 | 264 | #521 | — | — |
| 1951 | 221 | #578 | — | — |
| 1950 | 252 | #513 | — | — |
| 1949 | 205 | #579 | — | — |
| 1948 | 166 | #645 | — | — |
| 1947 | 179 | #627 | — | — |
| 1946 | 136 | #684 | — | — |
| 1945 | 104 | #732 | — | — |
| 1944 | 113 | #705 | — | — |
| 1943 | 103 | #764 | — | — |
| 1942 | 106 | #725 | — | — |
| 1941 | 111 | #671 | — | — |
| 1940 | 98 | #703 | — | — |
| 1939 | 56 | #940 | — | — |
| 1938 | 50 | #1,011 | — | — |
| 1937 | 94 | #704 | — | — |
| 1936 | 79 | #758 | — | — |
| 1935 | 71 | #806 | — | — |
| 1934 | 71 | #797 | — | — |
| 1933 | 85 | #704 | — | — |
| 1932 | 85 | #731 | — | — |
| 1931 | 76 | #769 | — | — |
| 1930 | 97 | #701 | — | — |
| 1929 | 91 | #731 | — | — |
| 1928 | 107 | #674 | — | — |
| 1927 | 99 | #724 | — | — |
| 1926 | 105 | #710 | — | — |
| 1925 | 120 | #677 | — | — |
| 1924 | 114 | #695 | — | — |
| 1923 | 107 | #705 | — | — |
| 1922 | 106 | #706 | — | — |
| 1921 | 104 | #719 | — | — |
| 1920 | 104 | #712 | — | — |
| 1919 | 82 | #780 | — | — |
| 1918 | 91 | #749 | — | — |
| 1917 | 68 | #830 | — | — |
| 1916 | 64 | #848 | — | — |
| 1915 | 65 | #812 | — | — |
| 1914 | 37 | #973 | — | — |
| 1913 | 28 | #1,027 | — | — |
| 1912 | 28 | #962 | — | — |
| 1911 | 18 | #1,039 | — | — |
| 1910 | 17 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 1909 | 25 | #818 | — | — |
| 1908 | 20 | #888 | — | — |
| 1907 | 14 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 1906 | 21 | #800 | — | — |
| 1905 | 10 | #1,253 | — | — |
| 1904 | 12 | #1,058 | — | — |
| 1903 | 14 | #938 | — | — |
| 1902 | 16 | #877 | — | — |
| 1901 | 13 | #926 | — | — |
| 1900 | 17 | #926 | — | — |
| 1899 | 12 | #940 | — | — |
| 1898 | 14 | #928 | — | — |
| 1897 | 18 | #743 | — | — |
| 1896 | 15 | #847 | — | — |
| 1895 | 12 | #941 | — | — |
| 1894 | 15 | #791 | — | — |
| 1893 | 10 | #968 | — | — |
| 1892 | 12 | #865 | — | — |
| 1891 | 8 | #1,028 | — | — |
| 1890 | 15 | #696 | — | — |
| 1889 | 9 | #917 | — | — |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,329 | — | — |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,061 | — | — |
| 1886 | 6 | #1,011 | — | — |
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).