Daphney
Daphney was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,205 among girls’ names; 1,513 Americans have been recorded with it since 1930 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,440 Americans named Daphney and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 19 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daphney by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Daphney?
#12,205 among girls’ names, 2025
Daphney fell from #5,509 in 2015 to #12,205 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 13.4 to 4.4 per million.
49 babies in 2001, the peak
Daphney peaked in 2001, when 49 girls were given it, #2,928 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,205 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,347 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,334 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,517 | 11.0 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,108 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,726 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,616 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,314 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,343 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,478 | 10.7 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,509 | 13.4 |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,290 | 19.0 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,692 | 13.1 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,520 | 18.2 |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,018 | 21.0 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,233 | 11.8 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,127 | 9.8 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,805 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,404 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,185 | 11.0 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,732 | 15.2 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,614 | 12.0 |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,045 | 18.1 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,522 | 15.0 |
| 2001 | 49 | #2,928 | 27.2 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,900 | 17.6 |
| 1999 | 43 | #3,054 | 24.2 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,261 | 14.7 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,262 | 10.9 |
| 1996 | 27 | #3,962 | 15.4 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,498 | 9.7 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,718 | 11.8 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,124 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,730 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,086 | 13.3 |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,448 | 16.3 |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,585 | 15.2 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,044 | 12.4 |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,354 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,581 | 9.9 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,643 | 13.4 |
| 1984 | 28 | #3,093 | 16.6 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,843 | 12.0 |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,356 | 14.8 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,642 | 13.2 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,775 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,159 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 29 | #2,807 | 18.9 |
| 1977 | 29 | #2,790 | 18.9 |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,493 | 21.8 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,296 | 14.4 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,076 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,140 | 14.4 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,582 | 11.2 |
| 1971 | 21 | #3,186 | 12.6 |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,234 | 11.4 |
| 1969 | 25 | #2,654 | 14.8 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,830 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,105 | 10.3 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,588 | 7.7 |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,854 | 10.8 |
| 1964 | 27 | #2,360 | 14.2 |
| 1963 | 29 | #2,219 | 15.0 |
| 1962 | 36 | #1,920 | 18.3 |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,076 | 8.4 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,280 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,240 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,523 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,961 | 5.0 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,330 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,670 | 3.7 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,843 | 3.5 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,759 | 3.7 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,697 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Daphney a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Daphney has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Daphney: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daphney, and how old are they?
1,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,513 Americans ever recorded as Daphney. The median Daphney alive today is 32 years old; half are between 19 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 1,708 people named Daphney (1,696 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,395 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 135 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 298 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 348 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 453 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 206 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 50,210 babies since 1880, Daphney is the second most given (3.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 1,765 babies (<1%), the third most given that year.
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 Daphney
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 Daphney and names like it
- Compare Daphney and DaphneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDaphney peaked in 2001.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Daphney since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Daphney.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Daphney alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.