Daphney
- #11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births
- Peak · girls
- 1962 · 36 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,513since 1930
Daphney over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Daphney has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 |
| 2023 | #7,247 | 15 |
| 2022 | #6,464 | 18 |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 |
| 2020 | #9,546 | 10 |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 |
| 2017 | #6,287 | 19 |
| 2016 | #6,401 | 19 |
| 2015 | #5,458 | 24 |
| 2014 | #4,269 | 34 |
| 2013 | #5,644 | 23 |
| 2012 | #4,486 | 32 |
| 2011 | #3,999 | 37 |
| 2010 | #6,182 | 21 |
| 2009 | #7,066 | 18 |
| 2008 | #5,750 | 24 |
| 2007 | #5,377 | 26 |
| 2006 | #6,125 | 21 |
| 2005 | #4,704 | 28 |
| 2004 | #5,555 | 22 |
| 2003 | #4,034 | 33 |
| 2002 | #4,498 | 27 |
| 2001 | #2,924 | 49 |
| 2000 | #3,886 | 32 |
| 1999 | #3,048 | 43 |
| 1998 | #4,238 | 26 |
| 1997 | #5,228 | 19 |
| 1996 | #3,942 | 27 |
| 1995 | #5,439 | 17 |
| 1994 | #4,687 | 21 |
| 1993 | #7,038 | 12 |
| 1992 | #6,652 | 13 |
| 1991 | #4,059 | 25 |
| 1990 | #3,436 | 31 |
| 1989 | #3,566 | 28 |
| 1988 | #4,015 | 22 |
| 1987 | #3,331 | 27 |
| 1986 | #4,539 | 17 |
| 1985 | #3,621 | 23 |
| 1984 | #3,069 | 28 |
| 1983 | #3,806 | 20 |
| 1982 | #3,344 | 25 |
| 1981 | #3,625 | 22 |
| 1980 | #4,743 | 15 |
| 1979 | #5,092 | 13 |
| 1978 | #2,801 | 29 |
| 1977 | #2,780 | 29 |
| 1976 | #2,486 | 32 |
| 1975 | #3,259 | 21 |
| 1974 | #4,041 | 15 |
| 1973 | #3,122 | 21 |
| 1972 | #3,543 | 17 |
| 1971 | #3,166 | 21 |
| 1970 | #3,208 | 20 |
| 1969 | #2,645 | 25 |
| 1968 | #3,789 | 13 |
| 1967 | #3,085 | 17 |
| 1966 | #3,558 | 13 |
| 1965 | #2,833 | 19 |
| 1964 | #2,348 | 27 |
| 1963 | #2,211 | 29 |
| 1962 | #1,917 | 36 |
| 1961 | #3,060 | 17 |
| 1960 | #5,168 | 7 |
| 1959 | — | |
| 1958 | #4,193 | 9 |
| 1957 | #5,377 | 6 |
| 1956 | #3,910 | 10 |
| 1955 | #5,208 | 6 |
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| 1953 | #4,595 | 7 |
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| 1950 | #4,738 | 6 |
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| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 |
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| 1930 | #4,550 | 5 |
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First appearance
1930
The first year at least five girls were named Daphney! It came in at #4,550, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1930–1949, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Daphney is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Daphney in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Daphney
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 810 spots since 2024 (#11,122 → #11,932)
- 2,386 spots since 2020 (#9,546 → #11,932)
- 6,474 spots since 2015 (#5,458 → #11,932)
Rise & fade · girls
32 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1930
- Peaked 1962 at #1,917 (36 births)
- Births halved by 1966, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 36,747
- Highest: 1 in 36,747 girls born in 2001 were named Daphney (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 229,610 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,917 in 1962, was only 1 in 54,628 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 18.5% of all girls named Daphney (280) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 5 | #4,550 (1930) | #4,550 |
| 1940s | 5 | #4,622 (1942) | #4,622 |
| 1950s | 44 | #3,910 (1956) | #4,670 |
| 1960s | 203 | #1,917 (1962) | #3,061 |
| 1970s | 218 | #2,486 (1976) | #3,350 |
| 1980s | 227 | #3,069 (1984) | #3,766 |
| 1990s | 234 | #3,048 (1999) | #4,777 |
| 2000s | 280 | #2,924 (2001) | #4,992 |
| 2010s | 228 | #3,999 (2011) | #6,323 |
| 2020s | 69 | #6,464 (2022) | #9,215 |
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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