Dafne
Where Dafne comes from
Dafne hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.
- Vowel-ended
Along the way
- 1988First appearance#6,666 among girls, 11 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
- 1992Dafne Schippers bornDutch heptathlete and sprinter
- 2005Dafne Keen bornSpanish-British actress
- 2024Peak, #873309 babies named Dafne — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.
Namesakes
- Dafne Keen · Spanish-British actress, born 2005
- Dafne Schippers · Dutch heptathlete and sprinter, born 1992
- Dafne Fernández · Spanish actor, singer and dancer, born 1985
- Dafne Navarro · Mexican trampoline gymnast, born 1996
- Dafne Molina · Mexican beauty pageant contestant, born 1982
Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.