Daphine
Daphine was last recorded in 2010, when 5 babies were given it; 1,497 Americans have been recorded with it between 1914 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daphine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Daphine?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,653, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
49 babies in 1962, the peak
Daphine peaked in 1962, when 49 girls were given it, #1,607 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | #17,653 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,712 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,273 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,588 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,863 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,369 | 2.7 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,369 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,572 | 3.3 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,683 | 2.8 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,128 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (89)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 6 | #12,147 | 3.4 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,745 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,539 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,742 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,631 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,574 | 4.5 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,236 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,733 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,540 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,903 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,423 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,962 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,911 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,550 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,788 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,264 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,160 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,643 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,454 | 12.9 |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,253 | 13.7 |
| 1972 | 37 | #2,108 | 24.3 |
| 1971 | 29 | #2,553 | 17.4 |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,795 | 14.3 |
| 1969 | 20 | #3,029 | 11.9 |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,557 | 14.6 |
| 1967 | 24 | #2,506 | 14.5 |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,062 | 10.0 |
| 1965 | 26 | #2,353 | 14.7 |
| 1964 | 36 | #1,984 | 19.0 |
| 1963 | 38 | #1,898 | 19.7 |
| 1962 | 49 | #1,607 | 24.9 |
| 1961 | 35 | #1,961 | 17.3 |
| 1960 | 25 | #2,380 | 12.4 |
| 1959 | 19 | #2,691 | 9.4 |
| 1958 | 29 | #2,081 | 14.4 |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,056 | 7.3 |
| 1956 | 22 | #2,402 | 11.0 |
| 1955 | 19 | #2,565 | 9.7 |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,530 | 9.8 |
| 1953 | 23 | #2,182 | 12.2 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,700 | 8.6 |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,498 | 9.4 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,262 | 6.4 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,871 | 7.6 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,999 | 7.1 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,792 | 7.9 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,906 | 7.6 |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,356 | 10.7 |
| 1944 | 18 | #2,040 | 13.6 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,291 | 6.5 |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,446 | 10.4 |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,034 | 14.1 |
| 1940 | 19 | #1,852 | 16.6 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,961 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,977 | 8.2 |
| 1937 | 16 | #2,019 | 15.0 |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,291 | 12.5 |
| 1935 | 23 | #1,559 | 21.9 |
| 1934 | 29 | #1,350 | 27.8 |
| 1933 | 30 | #1,314 | 29.8 |
| 1932 | 27 | #1,459 | 25.3 |
| 1931 | 24 | #1,559 | 22.5 |
| 1930 | 29 | #1,440 | 25.8 |
| 1929 | 23 | #1,654 | 20.6 |
| 1928 | 30 | #1,435 | 26.0 |
| 1927 | 28 | #1,563 | 23.5 |
| 1926 | 27 | #1,594 | 22.8 |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,046 | 15.6 |
| 1924 | 32 | #1,481 | 25.6 |
| 1923 | 22 | #1,852 | 18.2 |
| 1922 | 29 | #1,543 | 24.1 |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,876 | 17.8 |
| 1920 | 18 | #2,093 | 15.0 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,916 | 6.2 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,554 | 11.2 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,798 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,699 | 10.5 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,739 | 10.2 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,958 | 9.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Daphine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Daphine has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 89 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Daphine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daphine, and how old are they?
An estimated 871 Americans named Daphine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (58% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 51 and 70. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 853 people named Daphine (853 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 983 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
Where are babies named Daphine born?
The states with the most babies named Daphine are North Carolina, Texas and Alabama, with 87% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 145 | not ranked | 3.1× |
| Texas | 27 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Alabama | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 7 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| California | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Louisiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Mississippi | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| South Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Daphine is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Daphine is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1914 it was given 3.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Daphine with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 50,258 babies since 1880, Daphine is the third most given (3.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,754 babies recorded by SSA was a Daphine (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 Daphine
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 Daphine and names like it
- Compare Daphine and DaphneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDaphine peaked in 1962.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Daphine since 1910.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Daphine.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Daphine alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.