Dafnee — girls' name
39 babies named Dafnee in U.S. Social Security records since 2005, with the highest year being 2008. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
72% of everyone ever named Dafnee was born in this single decade.
7 babies were named Dafnee in 2008 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Dafnee
The Social Security Administration has registered 39 babies named Dafnee between 2005 and 2018, spanning 14 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Dafnee currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 7 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Dafnee performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 28 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Dafnee shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Dafnee in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Dafnee in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 39 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Dafnee at a glance
Last recorded 2018Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Dafnee popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2018–2005
- Peak year (2008)
- 7
- Annual births at peak — across 14 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2018.
39 total births across 14 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2008 with 7 births in a single year.
Dafnee by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 28 births that decade — 72% of Dafnee's all-time total
Dafnee decade highlights
- Peak decade 28 births
- Runner-up 11 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Dafnee's strongest decade
28 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 72% of all-time use.
Dafnee by state
Where Dafnee concentrates geographically — total births since 2005
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 12.8% |
5 of 39 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 12.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 12.8% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2005–2018 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.