Daphane
Daphane was last recorded in 2008, when 6 babies were given it; 487 Americans have been recorded with it between 1924 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daphane by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Daphane?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,875, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 1962, the peak
Daphane peaked in 1962, when 27 girls were given it, #2,321 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 6 | #15,875 | 3.2 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,587 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,738 | 2.7 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,922 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,576 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,403 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,837 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,723 | 6.2 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,682 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,104 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 10 | #8,014 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,930 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,842 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,424 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,913 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,574 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,539 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,637 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,012 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,553 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,567 | 4.8 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,280 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,946 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,159 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,620 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,075 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,409 | 8.9 |
| 1972 | 15 | #3,930 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 15 | #3,978 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,233 | 11.4 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,348 | 10.1 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,829 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,685 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,587 | 7.7 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,434 | 7.9 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,547 | 7.4 |
| 1963 | 24 | #2,494 | 12.5 |
| 1962 | 27 | #2,321 | 13.7 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,062 | 5.4 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,841 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,706 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,596 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,264 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,929 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,456 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,903 | 2.6 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,842 | 3.5 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,136 | 5.3 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,238 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Daphane a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Daphane has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Daphane: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daphane, and how old are they?
An estimated 437 Americans named Daphane and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 40 and 62. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 484 people named Daphane (480 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 450 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 50,258 babies since 1880, Daphane is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,754 babies recorded by SSA was a Daphane (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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Daphane
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 Daphane and names like it
- Compare Daphane and DaphneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDaphane peaked in 1962.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Daphane since 1910.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Daphane.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Daphane alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.