Dafne Girl
How popular is Dafne?
#1,047 girl name in 2025
237 baby girls were named Dafne in the US in 2025, making it the 1047th most popular girl name.
Dafne popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,047 for girls (▼ 174 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 237 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+155% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #2,088 in 2015, #2,257 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2024 (309 girls) |
| Highest rank | #873 in 2024 |
| First recorded | 1988 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Dafne counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Daphne family of names ranked #169 for girls in 2025 (#180 the year before), with 1,987 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Daphne | 1,740 | 88% |
| Dafne | 237 | 12% |
| Dafnne | 10 | 1% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Dafne is most popular
Babies named Dafne per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- New Jersey: 0.3 per 1,000 (56 girls)
- Maryland: 0.3 per 1,000 (30 girls)
- Tennessee: 0.2 per 1,000 (38 girls)
- Texas: 0.2 per 1,000 (192 girls)
- Florida: 0.2 per 1,000 (85 girls)
Dafne by decade
Girl names about as popular as Dafne
Questions
- Is Dafne a boy or girl name?
- Dafne is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Dafne were girls.
- How popular is the name Dafne?
- 237 baby girls were named Dafne in the US in 2025, making it the 1047th most popular girl name.
- When was Dafne most popular?
- Dafne peaked in 2024, when 309 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #873 in 2024.
- How many people are named Dafne?
- 3,523 babies have been named Dafne in the US since 1880. We estimate about 3,500 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 12.
- Where is Dafne most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Dafne was most common in New Jersey, at 0.3 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.