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Daphne

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Latin spelling of Δαφνη (Daphne), a Greek name meaning 'laurel' [1]

Laurel plant
Laurel plant
Image by 'Acabashi',[2]
License: Creative Commons, CC-BY-SA

Related Names

Dafna ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Icelandic Swedish
Dafne ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Dafny ♀ Danish Norwegian
Daphna ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish Swedish
Daphne ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

See also Dafina, Defne, Dofny

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Daphne
Genitive: Daphnes
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Daphne
Genitive: Daphnen
Partitive: Daphnea
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Daphne
Genitive: Daphnes
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Daphne
Genitive: Daphnes

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 28 people were named Daphne (percentage of first or only given name: 50 %) [3]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[4]
198 281 198 281 0 0
Denmark Denmark[5]
54
n.a.
 54
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Finland Finland[6]
n.a.
 50
n.a.
 50 0 0
Iceland Iceland[7]
3 4
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[8]
37
n.a.
 37
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[9]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Daphne.


References

  1. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. ↑ Wikimedia Commons: Image by 'Acabashi', source & license
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  7. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  8. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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