Dafney
Dafney was last recorded in 2016, when 6 babies were given it; 90 Americans have been recorded with it between 1972 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dafney by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dafney?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,744, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 2001, the peak
Dafney peaked in 2001, when 10 girls were given it, #9,535 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 6 | #14,744 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,393 | 2.8 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,679 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,323 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,699 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,328 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,503 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,535 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,069 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,923 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 5 | #10,076 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,368 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,200 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,051 | 5.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dafney a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dafney has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dafney: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dafney, and how old are they?
An estimated 88 Americans named Dafney and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 208 people named Dafney (208 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 88 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Dafney?
Dafney is a less common spelling of Daphney: SSA has recorded 90 Dafney and 1,513 Daphney since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 5,479 babies since 1880, Dafney is the fourth most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 244 babies recorded by SSA was a Dafney (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Dafney and names like it
- Compare Dafney and DaphneyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDafney peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dafney since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Dafney.
- Names starting with DMost given first.