Daphene
Daphene was last recorded in 1993, when 6 babies were given it; 578 Americans have been recorded with it between 1916 and 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daphene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Daphene?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,131, in 1993; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1964, the peak
Daphene peaked in 1964, when 22 girls were given it, #2,691 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 6 | #12,131 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,779 | 2.7 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,708 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,344 | 2.9 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,776 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,614 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,222 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,042 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,254 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,197 | 13.1 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 20 | #3,285 | 12.0 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,482 | 5.1 |
| 1969 | 13 | #3,996 | 7.7 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,344 | 9.8 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,075 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,285 | 8.9 |
| 1965 | 11 | #3,997 | 6.2 |
| 1964 | 22 | #2,691 | 11.6 |
| 1963 | 17 | #3,090 | 8.8 |
| 1962 | 21 | #2,676 | 10.7 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,483 | 6.9 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,842 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,707 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,239 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,611 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,930 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,122 | 7.2 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,357 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,001 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,726 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,956 | 3.3 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,399 | 4.1 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,318 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,404 | 2.9 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,075 | 4.5 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,187 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,701 | 3.8 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,004 | 7.9 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,378 | 4.6 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,202 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,906 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,971 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,211 | 13.4 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,292 | 12.9 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,646 | 6.6 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,555 | 6.6 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,406 | 7.1 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,333 | 12.5 |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,303 | 13.0 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,735 | 10.1 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,310 | 7.6 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,750 | 6.6 |
| 1924 | 11 | #3,009 | 8.8 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,960 | 9.1 |
| 1922 | 10 | #3,203 | 8.3 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,742 | 6.5 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,154 | 8.3 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,263 | 8.0 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,574 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Daphene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Daphene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Daphene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daphene, and how old are they?
An estimated 336 Americans named Daphene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (58% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 55 and 70. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 379 people named Daphene (375 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 380 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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, Daphene is the sixth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,754 babies recorded by SSA was a Daphene (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 Daphene
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Daphine | 1,497 |
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 Daphene and names like it
- Compare Daphene and DaphneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDaphene peaked in 1964.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Daphene since 1910.
- The top names of 1964The year the most babies were named Daphene.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Daphene alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.