Dafne
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: daphne (any of several shrubs in the genus Daphne)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ðafne/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dafne is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- CLChile≈1 in 5.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 17K
- ARArgentina≈1 in 17K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 184 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.6K (inferred from the name graph)
7,906 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
daphne (any of several shrubs in the genus Daphne)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Dafne is read(measured from records)
Dafne is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish75%
Griego Daphne; ninfa transformada en laurel. Asociado al premio poético del laurel.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Portuguese9.0%
daphne (any of several shrubs in the genus Daphne)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English7.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Dafne in English.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dafne counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 7,906 | 1 in 27K | 7.9K | Dafne | 84 |
| CL Chile | #761 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | 79 | Dafne | 69 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,992 | 1 in 17K | 3K | Dafne | 76 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 2,859 | 1 in 5.9K | 2.9K | Dafne | 13 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 341 | Dafne | 66 |
| GT Guatemala | #730 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Dafne | 15 |
| UY Uruguay | #702 | 248 | 1 in 14K | 248 | Dafne | 15 |
7,906 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Dafne is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Alloro
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Dutch, rare spelling of Daphne
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, daphne
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Grieķu mitoloģijā - Gajas un upju dieva Pēneja meita, kas, glābdamās no Apolona mīlestības, lūdza tēvam palīdzību, un dievi viņu pārvērta par lauru koku
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Carolina-Dafne Alonso-Cortésb. 1933ESSpanish writer
- Dafne Aggelidoub. 1962GRGreek artist
- Dafne Jemeršićb. 1965HRCroatian actress
- Dafne Molinb. 1979ITItalian chemical engineer (born 1979)
- Dafne Molinab. 1982MXMexican beauty pageant contestant
- Dafne Fernándezb. 1985ESSpanish actor, singer and dancer
- Dafne Schippersb. 1992NLDutch heptathlete and sprinter
- Dafne Navarrob. 1996MXMexican trampoline gymnast
- Dafne Bettinib. 2003ITItalian water polo player
- Dafne Keenb. 2005ESSpanish-British actress (born 2005)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 53 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 7.9K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 7.8K | #1,998 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 4.2K | #3,759 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 3K | #1,315 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 2.9K | #495 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.5K | #740 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 813 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 341 | #358 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 292 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 248 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 239 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 102 | #1,998 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dafne mean, and where does it come from?
- daphne (any of several shrubs in the genus Daphne) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Dafne have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 7.9 thousand people named Dafne, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dafne.
- How do you pronounce Dafne?
- A machine transcription gives /ðafne/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Dafne?
- In the etymology graph, Daphne, Defne and Daphné are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Dafne a male or female name?
- Dafne is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Dafne?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 7,906 people named Dafne in 2022, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
- How common is Dafne compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Dafne is the 702nd most common given name of 12,212 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dafneThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dafne” — the 702nd most common given name in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.