Daphine
Daphine is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 196249 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1914
- 1,496people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,496 girls have been named Daphine in the United States since 1914, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1962, with 49 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 49 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1955, and the 1960s alone account for 20%.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Daphine | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 55 | |
| 1920s | 250 | |
| 1930s | 209 | |
| 1940s | 142 | |
| 1950s | 190 | |
| 1960s | 293 | |
| 1970s | 179 | |
| 1980s | 88 | |
| 1990s | 38 | |
| 2000s | 47 | |
| 2010s | 5 |
In 1962, its biggest year
Daphine was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1962 were Lisa, Mary, Susan, Karen and Linda. See all of 1962.
Names that rose and fell with Daphine
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lauricepeak 1954
- Socorropeak 1929
- Vanitapeak 1971
- Nadinepeak 1958
- Beliapeak 1931
- Amparopeak 1927
- Darlinepeak 1927
- Dorinepeak 1932
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.