Daphney
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- DAF-nee
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Daphney is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “laurel”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Daphney mean?
Greek: variant of Daphne
“laurel”
In Greek myth the nymph Daphne was turned into a laurel tree to escape Apollo.
Is Daphney a girl's or a boy's name?
Daphney is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Daphney in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Daphney, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. Its busiest year was 2001, with 49 girls. It first appears in the records in 1930.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Daphney than any year since 1960.
Half of all the girls named Daphney in the US since 1880 were born between 1976 and 2006, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,775 girls in the US were given Daphney or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #205, up from #11,928 for this spelling alone.
Daphney in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,117 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,242 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,459 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,541 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,283 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,398 |
| 2015 | 24 | #5,456 |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,267 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,642 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,484 |
| 2011 | 37 | #3,998 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,180 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,063 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,747 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,374 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,123 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,700 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,551 |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,030 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,494 |
| 2001 | 49 | #2,920 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,881 |
| 1999 | 43 | #3,045 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,235 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,224 |
| 1996 | 27 | #3,937 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,434 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,682 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,031 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,645 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,053 |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,431 |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,560 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,010 |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,328 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,536 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,620 |
| 1984 | 28 | #3,068 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,805 |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,343 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,624 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,742 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,091 |
| 1978 | 29 | #2,801 |
| 1977 | 29 | #2,780 |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,486 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,259 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,040 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,121 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,543 |
| 1971 | 21 | #3,166 |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,208 |
| 1969 | 25 | #2,645 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,788 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,084 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,557 |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,832 |
| 1964 | 27 | #2,347 |
| 1963 | 29 | #2,210 |
| 1962 | 36 | #1,916 |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,059 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,167 |
| 1959 | 0 | – |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,192 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,376 |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,909 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,207 |
| 1954 | 0 | – |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,594 |
| 1952 | 0 | – |
| 1951 | 0 | – |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,736 |
| 1949 | 0 | – |
| 1948 | 0 | – |
| 1947 | 0 | – |
| 1946 | 0 | – |
| 1945 | 0 | – |
| 1944 | 0 | – |
| 1943 | 0 | – |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,620 |
| 1941 | 0 | – |
| 1940 | 0 | – |
| 1939 | 0 | – |
| 1938 | 0 | – |
| 1937 | 0 | – |
| 1936 | 0 | – |
| 1935 | 0 | – |
| 1934 | 0 | – |
| 1933 | 0 | – |
| 1932 | 0 | – |
| 1931 | 0 | – |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,548 |
Nicknames for Daphney
- Daph
Names like Daphney
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ashley, Cassidy, Lainey, Kaitlyn, Riley, Casey, Delaney, Bailey, Eden, Kelsey, Brynn, Hailey
Other spellings of Daphney
More Greek names
Luca, Theodore, Sophia, George, Theo, Lucas, Sofia, Alexander, Sebastian, Penelope, Phoebe, Margot, Luke, Chloe, Sophie, Zoe
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Daphney: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/daphney, updated 20 October 2026.