Daphene vs Daphna
American parents have registered 648 Daphnas since 1880, against 578 Daphenes. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Daphene Daphna
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 85 years in which either name was published, Daphene for 43 years and Daphna for 42 years. The lead changed hands 18 times.
- 1909–1932 Daphna ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1933–1937 Daphene ahead
- 1938–1944 Daphna ahead
- 1949–1976 Daphene ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1977–2023 Daphna ahead, apart from 2 short spells
9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Daphene | Daphna | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 578 | 648 |
| Most in one year | 22 | 20 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 340 | 300 |
| Median age today | 61 | 57 |
| Peak year | 1964 | 1916 |
| Best rank | 2,675th girls | 1,739th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1916 | 1909 |
| Girls / boys | 578 / 0 | 648 / 0 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Daphenes alive today are over 61; half the Daphnas are over 57. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Daphene and Daphna.