Daphney
Daphney is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 200149 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1930
- 1,506people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,506 girls have been named Daphney in the United States since 1930, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2001, with 49 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1991, and the 2000s alone account for 19%.
By decade
In 2001, its biggest year
Daphney was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2001 were Emily, Madison, Hannah, Ashley and Alexis. See all of 2001.
Names that rose and fell with Daphney
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Joyapeak 1990
- Elanapeak 2006
- Delainapeak 2007
- Mellaniepeak 2003
- Tamarpeak 1977
- Joipeak 1981
- Dyanapeak 2004
- Meleapeak 2006
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.