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Daphene vs Daphine

American parents have registered 1,497 Daphines since 1880, against 578 Daphenes. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Daphene against Daphine, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Daphene Daphine

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 91 years in which either name was published, Daphine for 88 years and Daphene for 3 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Daphene Daphine
Total US births 5781,497
Most in one year 2249
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 340890
Median age today 6161
Peak year 19641962
Best rank 2,675th girls1,607th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19161914
Girls / boys 578 / 01,497 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Daphene and Daphine.