Dafne
- #1,047 for girls in 2025, 237 births
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 309 births
- Debut · girls
- 11 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,523since 1988
Dafne over time
Rank among girls' names. Dafne has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,047 | 237 |
| 2024 | #873 | 309 |
| 2023 | #1,018 | 248 |
| 2022 | #1,415 | 160 |
| 2021 | #1,871 | 106 |
| 2020 | #2,257 | 79 |
| 2019 | #2,217 | 83 |
| 2018 | #1,978 | 99 |
| 2017 | #2,007 | 98 |
| 2016 | #2,093 | 93 |
| 2015 | #2,088 | 93 |
| 2014 | #1,459 | 154 |
| 2013 | #2,122 | 89 |
| 2012 | #2,205 | 85 |
| 2011 | #2,190 | 86 |
| 2010 | #1,897 | 106 |
| 2009 | #1,947 | 107 |
| 2008 | #1,762 | 125 |
| 2007 | #1,744 | 124 |
| 2006 | #1,894 | 107 |
| 2005 | #1,731 | 114 |
| 2004 | #1,614 | 120 |
| 2003 | #1,786 | 105 |
| 2002 | #1,584 | 117 |
| 2001 | #967 | 224 |
| 2000 | #2,569 | 58 |
| 1999 | #4,870 | 22 |
| 1998 | #4,796 | 22 |
| 1997 | #5,626 | 17 |
| 1996 | #6,064 | 15 |
| 1995 | #5,019 | 19 |
| 1994 | #5,016 | 19 |
| 1993 | #5,955 | 15 |
| 1992 | #5,718 | 16 |
| 1991 | #5,004 | 19 |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 |
| 1989 | #6,955 | 11 |
| 1988 | #6,666 | 11 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Dafne! It came in at #6,666, and was given to 11 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1988–1990, when fewer than 12 girls a year got the name.
Where Dafne is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#447 · 1 in 2,088
- South Carolina#519 · 1 in 2,032
- Maryland#600 · 1 in 2,498
- Tennessee#645 · 1 in 2,916
- Kentucky#653 · 1 in 2,875
Best ever in a state: #351 in Nevada, 2001.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #447 | 17 | 1 in 2,088 |
| South Carolina | #519 | 9 | 1 in 2,032 |
| Maryland | #600 | 8 | 1 in 2,498 |
| Tennessee | #645 | 11 | 1 in 2,916 |
| Kentucky | #653 | 6 | 1 in 2,875 |
| Colorado | #703 | 7 | 1 in 3,332 |
| Arizona | #818 | 7 | 1 in 4,031 |
| Florida | #825 | 19 | 1 in 4,566 |
| Texas | #917 | 31 | 1 in 5,179 |
| Virginia | #936 | 7 | 1 in 4,820 |
| California | #965 | 28 | 1 in 5,776 |
| Illinois | #1,014 | 8 | 1 in 5,541 |
| North Carolina | #1,057 | 8 | 1 in 5,810 |
| New York | #1,165 | 12 | 1 in 6,527 |
| Georgia | #1,213 | 7 | 1 in 6,458 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,231 | 6 | 1 in 7,781 |
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See more about Dafne
- 174 spots since 2024 (#873 → #1,047)
- 1,210 spots since 2020 (#2,257 → #1,047)
- Biggest jump: 1,602 spots in 2001
- Biggest drop: 617 spots in 2002
- Debuted 1988
- Peaked 2024 at #873 (309 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 2001–2024
- Highest: 1 in 5,243 girls born in 2024 were named Dafne (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,782 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 34.1% of all girls named Dafne (1,201) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1980s | 22 | #6,666 (1988) | #6,811 |
| 1990s | 175 | #4,796 (1998) | #5,537 |
| 2000s | 1,201 | #967 (2001) | #1,760 |
| 2010s | 986 | #1,459 (2014) | #2,026 |
| 2020s | 1,139 | #873 (2024) | #1,414 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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