Entry № 2226 · Hebrew origin

Dafna Dafna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DAHF-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Laurel (Hebrew Daphne)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Hebrew)

A name that means "laurel (hebrew daphne)".

Dafna (דַּפְנָה) is the Hebrew form of Daphne — from the Greek for "laurel." The laurel was sacred to Apollo. Used widely in modern Israel.

Dafna is widely used in Israel.

Laurel. The Hebrew Daphne.

The name in its native script.

דַּפְנָה
Transliteration
Dafnāh
Pronunciation
/ ˈdɑːf.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Dafna stands.

Dafna does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Dafnas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Dafna
Common in Israeli fiction.

Names connected to Dafna.

The number behind Dafna.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Dafna reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.