Daphney

Girls' name · Millennial-era

Living in the US: ~1,500 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank: #11,932 among girls
Births in 2025: 7 1,513 since 1880
Typical age: 32 years, median

Daphney popularity over time

Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1930–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 2001: 49 births recorded as Daphney. It first clears the SSA reporting threshold in 1930. As of 2025 the name sits at #11,932, with 7 births that year.

Compared with 2015, births are down 71%. Year on year the rank dropped by 810.

Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Daphney?

About 1,500 people named Daphney are alive in the United States today. That is out of 1,513 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Daphney?

The typical living Daphney is 32 years old. More of them were born in the 2000s than in any other decade. By the site’s era rules that makes Daphney a millennial-era name.

Your Daphney

Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

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Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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