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Dafne

#1,047 in 2025Girls' name

Laurel, bay, through Daphnē

Dafne has been given to 3,523 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #1,047 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 309 recorded.

Babies named Dafne, 2025

1 in 14,000

Dafne over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dafne: meaning, origin, and history

Laurel, bay, through Daphnē

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dafne means

Dafne belongs to the name family reached through Dafne → Daphnē. Its meaning is “laurel, bay”.

Origin, language, and formation

Dafne is used in Italian.

Dafne comes through Ancient Greek Δάφνη and Latin Daphnē.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Daphne and Daphnē.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Dafne is pronounced /ˈdaf.ne/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,523 girls were recorded with the name Dafne between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 309 in 2024; its best national rank was #873 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,261 in 2020 to #1,047 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,095 in 2015 to #1,047 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Dafne?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 14,000
237 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 6,780
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,047
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
9,697 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dafne 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 2025 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 9,697 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dafne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dafnes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dafne was born before 2013 — so the typical Dafne is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
34.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,523
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 34.1% of all recorded uses (1,201).

Is Dafne 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
−174
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,214
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,048
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.55×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
76.7%
Peak was 2024 (309)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#873
2024

Spellings of Dafne

Dafne is not the most common spelling — Diane is, with 25.4% against Dafne's 0.17%.

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.

Where Dafne is used

Across 2016–2025, Dafne was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 5,000 girls, against 1 in 9,767 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 50,000).

220 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 5,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 5,263
  3. 3Maryland1 in 7,143
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 7,143
  5. 5California1 in 8,333
  6. 6Florida1 in 8,333
  7. 7New York1 in 8,333
  8. 8Georgia1 in 10,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Dafne around the world

Where Dafne ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2012–2025
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • France
    2000–2024
    #5,110
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Dafne

People whose public names include Dafne, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Dafne in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Dafne. Linked forms have their own page here.

DafnaDefneDafneyDaphne

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Dafne by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,047
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,214
Best rank ever
#873
2024
Peak year
2024
309 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,523
Count in 2025
237

Names similar to Dafne

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

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Names with a curve like Dafne

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Dafne, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Dafne

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

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