Girl
Daphne
As a girl's name, Daphne is understood to mean "laurel tree". It settled in after its 1960s peak and has held its ground ever since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. Its single strongest year on record was 1962.
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EtymologyMeaning "laurel tree"
Births by decade
1900s
162
1910s
498
1920s
1,057
1930s
764
1940s
1,321
1950s
2,788
1960s
6,935
1970s
4,827
1980s
2,697
1990s
2,520
2000s
5,124
2010s
6,216
Peaked in the 1960s · 34,909 total U.S. births since 1900