Daphanie — girls' name
466 babies named Daphanie in U.S. Social Security records since 1961, with the highest year being 1972. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
29% of everyone ever named Daphanie was born in this single decade.
21 babies were named Daphanie in 1972 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Daphanie
The Social Security Administration has registered 466 babies named Daphanie between 1961 and 2018, spanning 58 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Daphanie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1972, when 21 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Daphanie performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 134 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Daphanie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Daphanie in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Daphanie 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 466 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.
Daphanie at a glance
Last recorded 2018Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Daphanie popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2018–1961
- Peak year (1972)
- 21
- Annual births at peak — across 58 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2018.
466 total births across 58 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1972 with 21 births in a single year.
Daphanie by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 134 births that decade — 29% of Daphanie's all-time total
Daphanie decade highlights
- Peak decade 134 births
- Runner-up 99 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Daphanie's strongest decade
134 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 29% of all-time use.
Daphanie by state
Where Daphanie concentrates geographically — total births since 1961
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Mississippi | | 5 | 1.1% |
5 of 466 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Mississippi 1.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Mississippi accounts for 1.1% 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, 1961–2018 (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.