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Daphene vs Daphne

American parents have registered 44,189 Daphnes since 1880, against 578 Daphenes. Daphne is still ahead, with 1,740 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Daphene against Daphne, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Daphene Daphne

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

Daphne has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1886 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1934, when Daphene had 14 and Daphne had 71.

Side by side

  Daphene Daphne
Total US births 57844,189
Most in one year 221,740
Babies in 2025 under 51,740
Estimated living today 34039,000
Median age today 6124
Peak year 19642025
Best rank 2,675th girls178th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked178th
First recorded 19161886
Girls / boys 578 / 044,182 / 7

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Daphenes alive today are over 61; half the Daphnes are over 24. That is 37 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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