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Dymphna

Girls' name

Form of Damhnait

Dymphna has been given to 98 babies in the U.S. since 1959. 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 1961, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Dymphna, 2020

1 in 668,000

Dymphna over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dymphna: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Damhnait

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dymphna means

Dymphna is a form of Damhnait.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Dymphna is used in History (Ecclesiastical) and Irish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈdɪmf.nə/ for Dymphna.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Damhnait.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 98 girls were recorded with the name Dymphna between 1959 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1961; its best national rank was #4,024 in 1966.

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.

How common is Dymphna?

Dymphna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 668,000
5 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 323,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,344 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dymphna 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 2020 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 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dymphna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dymphnas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dymphna was born before 1967 — so the typical Dymphna is around 58 today.

Median birth year
1967
About 58 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
65.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
98
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1960s — 65.3% of all recorded uses (64).

Is Dymphna 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
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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 1961 (11)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,024
1966

Spellings of Dymphna

Dymphna is not the most common spelling — Daphna is, with 86.9% against Dymphna's 13.1%.

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.

Dymphna around the world

Where Dymphna 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.

  • Ireland
    1966–1986
    #521
    in 1986
  • South Australia
    1946–1970
    #707
    in 1970

Popularity data from Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Dymphna 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
#4,024
1966
Peak year
1961
11 that year
First recorded
1959
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
98
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dymphna

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

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Sibling names for Dymphna

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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