Daphne

• English:/ˈdæfni/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
• Spanish:/d̪aβne/○(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Daphne, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Cora
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• Eloise

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Daphne is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate name3 spellings in the group

  Also written Daphné, Daphnē

• Polish given name47 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Poland, Russia, United Kingdom

  Languages: Polish, Russian, Croatian

  Also written Дафна, Dafne, Dafna, Daphna, Daphnee

• Greek given name23 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Greece, Brazil, United States, Germany

  Languages: Greek, Portuguese, English

  Also written Dafni, Δαφνη, Δάφνη, Dafne, Daphnē

• Finnish given name3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Finland

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Daphné

• English (South Africa) given name2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in South Africa, Netherlands, United Kingdom

  Also written Daphné

58 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Daphne is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Name borne in Greek mythology by a nymph who was changed into a laurel by her father, a river god, to enable her to

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In English, A dryad pursued by Apollo, who was turned into a laurel tree by the river god Peneus.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In English, nymph loved by Apollo; pers. name

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• In Greek, from daphne 'laurel'

  as a name·Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

• In German, ) Daphna; Dafne: weibl. Vom. griechischen Ursprungs (griech. däphne»Lor­ beer; Lorbeerbaum«). Der Name geht zurück au f eine griechische Sagengestalt. Nach der griechischen Sage war Daphne eine Nymphe, die, von Apollo begehrt und verfolgt, auf ihre

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Daphne du Maurierb. 1907GBBritish writer (1907–1989)
• Daphne Caruana Galiziab. 1964MTMaltese journalist and blogger (1964-2017)
• Daphne Kollerb. 1968ILIsraeli-American computer scientist

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

88 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 48 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Daphne mean, and where does it come from?

Greek myth name; nymph transformed into a laurel tree. Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….

Is Daphne a male or female name?

Daphne is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Netherlands (Meertens NVB), Brazil (IBGE, 2022) and Ecuador (INEC, 2024), among others.

What are other forms of the name Daphne?

In the etymology graph, Defne, Dafne and Dafna are forms of the same name in other languages.

Which countries have the most people named Daphne?

In the United States, the national register counted about 34 thousand people named Daphne, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled daphne. After it come South Africa, United Kingdom, Philippines and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.

Where is Daphne most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Daphne is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 3.8 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How do you pronounce Daphne?

It depends on the language: in English /ˈdæfni/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /d̪aβne/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

How common is the name Daphne?

In the United States, the national register counted 33,602 people named Daphne in 2020, about 1 in 9.9 thousand residents.

How common is Daphne compared with other names?

In the Netherlands, Daphne is the 218th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.