Dafne
Dafne was given to 237 girls in 2025, #1,047 among girls’ names; 3,523 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,490 Americans named Dafne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 4 and 21.
Dafne dropped 174 places in 2025, the #20 drop among the girls’ top 1,000 of 2024.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dafne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dafne mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Dafne is “a female given name, equivalent to English Daphne”
From Ancient Greek Δάφνη (Dáphnē), via Latin Daphnē.
/ˈdaf.ne/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dafne?
#1,047 among girls’ names, 2025
Dafne rose from #2,095 in 2015 to #1,047 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.05 to 0.15 per 1,000.
309 babies in 2024, the peak
Dafne peaked in 2024, when 309 girls were given it, #873 among girls’ names. The 237 births of 2025 are 77% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 237 | #1,047 | 0.15 |
| 2024 | 309 | #873 | 0.19 |
| 2023 | 248 | #1,020 | 0.15 |
| 2022 | 160 | #1,415 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 106 | #1,876 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 79 | #2,261 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 83 | #2,221 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 99 | #1,982 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 98 | #2,011 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 93 | #2,097 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 93 | #2,095 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 154 | #1,460 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 89 | #2,127 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 85 | #2,213 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 86 | #2,197 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 106 | #1,901 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 107 | #1,953 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 125 | #1,764 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 124 | #1,746 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 107 | #1,898 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 114 | #1,731 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 120 | #1,618 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 105 | #1,787 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 117 | #1,587 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 224 | #967 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 58 | #2,570 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,895 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,823 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,680 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,130 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,057 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,064 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,014 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,774 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,029 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,412 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,069 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,738 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dafne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dafne has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dafne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dafne, and how old are they?
3,490 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,523 Americans ever recorded as Dafne. The median Dafne alive today is 12 years old; half are between 4 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 2,452 people named Dafne (2,430 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,385 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 133 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,520 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,840 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Dafne born?
The states with the most babies named Dafne are Texas, California and Florida, with 41% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 31 | #926 | 2.3× |
| California | 28 | #979 | 1.7× |
| Florida | 19 | #832 | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 17 | #453 | 0.9× |
| New York | 12 | #1,181 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 11 | #659 | 0.5× |
| South Carolina | 9 | #529 | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,044 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,083 | 0.5× |
| Maryland | 8 | #611 | 0.5× |
Where Dafne is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dafne is most over-represented in Texas: since 1988 it was given 2.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Dafne with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 48,288 babies since 1880, Dafne is the second most given (7.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 237 of their 1,977 babies (12%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dafne
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Dafne and names like it
- Compare Dafne and DaphneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sDafne peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dafne since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Dafne: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Dafne.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Dafne alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.