Daphnee

Where Daphnee comes from

Daphnee hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1970
    First appearance
    #5,818 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1974
    Peak, #5,776
    9 babies named Daphnee — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1975
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Daphnee hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.