Dafna
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dafna is a given name, most frequently recorded in Türkiye. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script.
- TRTürkiye1 in 4.2K◐
- USUnited States1 in 751K
- CYCyprus1 in 9.1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.9K ●
- Sources
- 134 ●
- 1 in 46K ◐
across 11 countries
125K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Defne in TR Türkiye, NL Netherlands, CY Cyprus and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #664 | 127,696 | 119K rec. | — | 7.7K | Defne | 82 |
| FR France | — | 580 | — | 1 in 117K | 580 | — | — |
| IL Israel | — | 549 | 465 rec. | — | — | Dafna | 66 |
| US United States | — | 443 | 3.8K rec. | 1 in 751K | 443 | Dafna | 134 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 377 | 326 rec. | 1 in 46K | 377 | Defne | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 291 | 253 rec. | — | — | Dafna | 26 |
| CY Cyprus | #974 | 251 | 305 rec. | — | — | Defne | 12 |
| BE Belgium | — | 198 | 203 rec. | — | 20 | Defne | 7 |
| SE Sweden | — | 190△ | 64 rec. | 1 in 54K | 190 | Defne | 7 |
| CA Canada | — | 173 | 153 rec. | — | 1 | Dafna | 25 |
| PL Poland | — | 115 | — | 1 in 333K | 115 | — | — |
| AU Australia | — | 92 | 84 rec. | — | — | Dafna | 20 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English3.8K40%
- Spanish2K21%
- Hebrew8299%
- Polish5286%
- Portuguese2903%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 3,775 | 40% |
| Spanish | 1,953 | 21% |
| Hebrew | 829 | 9% |
| Polish | 528 | 6% |
| Portuguese | 290 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Dafna is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Icelandic, to thrive
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1965 | 5 |
| 1969 | 5 |
| 1970 | 5 |
| 1975 | 7 |
| 1976 | 5 |
| 1980 | 6 |
| 1982 | 5 |
| 1989 | 5 |
| 1991 | 5 |
| 2003 | 5 |
| 2006 | 7 |
| 2007 | 5 |
| 2009 | 5 |
| 2012 | 9 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 14 years between 1965–2012. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Dafna Lemishb. 1951ILIsraeli-American media researcher in the fields of children, youth and leisure culture
- Dafna Armonib. 1956ILIsraeli singer, actress and painter
- Dafna Rechterb. 1965ILIsraeli actress
- Daphne Barak Erezb. 1965USnot in their usual nameIsraeli legal scholar
- Dafna Dekelb. 1966ILIsraeli singer and actor
- Daphna Levinb. 1968ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli director and screenwriter
- Dafna Shechorib. 1968ILIsraeli poet, editor and critic
- Dafna Hackerb. 1969ILIsraeli scholar (born 1969)
- Daphna Shpigelmanb. 1969ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli journalist
- Dafna Kaffemanb. 1972ILIsraeli artist (born 1972)
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 36 sources across 20 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 191 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Dafna?
- We estimate roughly 1.9 thousand people bear Dafna (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Dafna have the most bearers?
- Dafna is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled defne.
- How common is Dafna compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Dafna is the 664th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
- Is Dafna a male or female name?
- Dafna 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.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Dafna” — the 664th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.