Daphney

Peak · girls
1962 · 36 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,513
since 1930

Daphney over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Daphney has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #1,917, 1962girls
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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
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#11,9327
2024#11,1228
2023#7,24715
2022#6,46418
2021#8,97811
2020#9,54610
2019#11,3568
2018#9,15111
2017#6,28719
2016#6,40119
2015#5,45824
2014#4,26934
2013#5,64423
2012#4,48632
2011#3,99937
2010#6,18221
2009#7,06618
2008#5,75024
2007#5,37726
2006#6,12521
2005#4,70428
2004#5,55522
2003#4,03433
2002#4,49827
2001#2,92449
2000#3,88632
1999#3,04843
1998#4,23826
1997#5,22819
1996#3,94227
1995#5,43917
1994#4,68721
1993#7,03812
1992#6,65213
1991#4,05925
1990#3,43631
1989#3,56628
1988#4,01522
1987#3,33127
1986#4,53917
1985#3,62123
1984#3,06928
1983#3,80620
1982#3,34425
1981#3,62522
1980#4,74315
1979#5,09213
1978#2,80129
1977#2,78029
1976#2,48632
1975#3,25921
1974#4,04115
1973#3,12221
1972#3,54317
1971#3,16621
1970#3,20820
1969#2,64525
1968#3,78913
1967#3,08517
1966#3,55813
1965#2,83319
1964#2,34827
1963#2,21129
1962#1,91736
1961#3,06017
1960#5,1687
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1958#4,1939
1957#5,3776
1956#3,91010
1955#5,2086
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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
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s5#4,550 (1930)#4,550
1940s5#4,622 (1942)#4,622
1950s44#3,910 (1956)#4,670
1960s203#1,917 (1962)#3,061
1970s218#2,486 (1976)#3,350
1980s227#3,069 (1984)#3,766
1990s234#3,048 (1999)#4,777
2000s280#2,924 (2001)#4,992
2010s228#3,999 (2011)#6,323
2020s69#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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