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
  1. 1988
    First appearance
    #6,666 among girls, 11 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1992
    Dafne Schippers born
    Dutch heptathlete and sprinter
  3. 2005
    Dafne Keen born
    Spanish-British actress
  4. 2024
    Peak, #873
    309 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.