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Dafne

The girl's name Dafne has been in the national records since 1988, with 3,523 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,047th. About 3,500 Dafnes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Dafne

By the numbers

Total US births
3,523
Estimated living today
3,500
Median age today
11
Peak year
2024
Best rank
873rd
Rank in 2025
1,047th
First recorded
1988

How old the living Dafnes are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,523 babies given the name since 1988, about 3,500 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 2,300 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Dafnes

People named Dafne with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Dafne is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Dafne is most concentrated in Texas (4.4×), California (3.1×), Arizona (3.0×), Florida (1.4×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2024

The most popular girls’ names the year Dafne peaked:

All the names of 2024

Dafne elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Italy girls Dafne 3,290
France girls Dafne +1 spelling 125 2,795th
Switzerland girls Dafne 62 800th
England and Wales girls Dafne 41 2,788th
Belgium girls Dafne 17 901st
Poland girls Dafne 4 birth registrations 729th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Dafne: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Dafne 23 0.002% 859th
French girls Switzerland Dafne 6 0.001% 687th
Italian girls Switzerland Dafne 33 0.051% 70th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Dafne is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.05% of children were given it – 33 of them.

Dafne: rank by region

In 1998, Dafne was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Dafne 713 5

In 2023, Dafne was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

Region Spelling Place Children
Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste Dafne 8 1

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Dafne among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Dafne 8 10

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Dafne lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 2,992 women called Dafne were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Tarragona Dafne 118 0.270 410
Guadalajara Dafne 37 0.263 363
Soria Dafne 11 0.248 388
Palmas, Las Dafne 126 0.214 518
León Dafne 48 0.209 491
Santa Cruz de Tenerife Dafne 116 0.209 528

Listed in 51 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 1 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.