Dafna

Girls' name

Laurel

Dafna has been given to 79 babies in the U.S. since 1965. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2012, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Dafna, 2012

1 in 406,000

Dafna over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dafna: meaning, origin, and history

Laurel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dafna means

Dafna means “laurel”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Dafna is used in Hebrew.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 79 girls were recorded with the name Dafna between 1965 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2012; its best national rank was #6,713 in 1965.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Dafna?

Dafna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012: 1 in 406,000; 9 of 3,657,590 births
Among girls only: 1 in 196,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2012: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 281,695 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Dafna sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 281,695 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dafna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dafnas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dafna was born before 1989 — so the typical Dafna is around 36 today.

Median birth year: 1989; About 36 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 27.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 51.9%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 79; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 27.8% of all recorded uses (22).

Is Dafna rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2012 (9)
Years since peak: 13; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 19.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #6,713; 1965

Spellings of Dafna

Dafna is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 25.6% against Dafna's <0.01%.

Anna25.6%914,859
Donna23.3%831,641
Diana10.3%368,487
Dawn8.1%289,641
Dana5.4%193,555
Deanna3.8%134,477
Ana3.1%111,359
Lana1.6%57,434

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Dafna by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #6,713; 1965
Peak year: 2012; 9 that year
First recorded: 1965
Last recorded: 2012
All-time count: 79
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Dafna

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Dafny Dafnne Dafney Daffne Dafina Dafnee Dafni Daffany Daffy Daffney Dafne Daffie

Sibling names for Dafna

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Sofie Aubri Kaelynn Kendyl Bayleigh Audriana Cambria Farah

For a brother

Konnor Landry Harper Jovanni Maxim Channing Madden Eliot

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