Comments for the name Daphne

Pretty.

A famous bearer was the English writer Daphne Du Maurier, the author of "My Cousen Rachel" and "Rebecca".

This is a small evergreen shrub with sweet-scented flowers, and also one of the Scooby-Doo gang.

Daphne Moon is a character on the sitcom Frasier.

I named my daughter Daphne because the spelling is beautiful and the name is a little old fashioned and yet a little quirky. I call her Daph most of the time. Lorraine is her middle name. I think this name is a good choice for someone who wants a name that's not from out in left field but not so common like Jennifer or Megan. Out of her entire high school she is the only Daphne.

Once popular as a name for dogs.

Why I don't like this name I don't know, but I don't.

The only Daphne I ever knew was always teased and called Daphne Duck.

I don't really like this name at all.

Talented actress Daphne Zuniga bears the name. Daphne is a very beautiful name. It's so mystical and magical. I like it very much.

Daphne Blake was a character on Scooby Doo!

This name is also used in Dutch, but then it is pronounced as DAHF-nuh. I think it's very pretty that way.

Daphne is the main character of the movie "What A Girl Wants" starring Amanda Bynes and Colin Firth. Really good movie, and the character is cool.

It's Jack Lemmom's character in "Some Like It Hot", which is a fantastic hilarious movie.

What an elegant name!

There is a character in the Italian cartoon "Winx Club" whose name is Dafne or Daphne. She is a nymph, and is a guide to the main protagonist, Bloom. In the original (i.e. non-4kids) versions of the cartoon she is also Bloom's elder sister.

I've never liked this name much. It makes me think of 'daft' and 'daffy.' And the way it's spelled doesn't look aesthetically pleasing to me.

Daphne Handlová is character from the movie "15 Minutes". She is played by Vera Farmiga.

This name does sound sweet, and I have considered it. But growing up with Scooby-doo, I'm worried that she'd be born with cartoon-red hair, a purple dress, and a vanity complex. Har har. (When I was little I used to parade around the room as nerdy Velma. Yep. I had the haircut and everything.)

Daphne Greengrass is a character in the Harry potter series, although she is only mentioned in the Sorting Ceremony.

Daphne Rubin-Vega was the original Mimi in the original cast of the broadway show, "Rent".

Daphne is such a pretty name, very classy, and a little old-fashioned, in a good way.

I don't really like it much. It would probably be shortened to Daff, which wouldn't be nice. I have a rather unfriendly impression of the name for some reason. The name is much prettier in European languages other than English.

This name looks ugly and makes me think of Scooby-Doo or Daffy Duck.

I associate this name with a young lady about town with a funky sense of fashion. She'd probably look like she just came back from the 1970's.

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Daphne Millbrook, aka 'Nemesis' or 'Speedster' from Heroes. Too bad Danko had to go and get her shot though.

I think this is a great, classy name which would suit all ages, and also, when I hear the name Daphne I can't help but think of that groovy, red-haired teenager from the 70's cartoon programme Scooby Doo, which is a plus in my opinion. :)

I've always loved this name! It's perfect in that it's not too popular, but at the same time, not too unusual either. It has a beautiful sound, can be pronounced pretty easily in other languages, and has wonderful literary connections-- what with novelist Daphne Du Maurier and the ancient Greek myth about Daphne the nymph. It is also a classic name, and has consistently been in the top 1000 baby names for more than a century.

Daphne Guinness (1967-) is an heiress of the Guinness brewery family, and an artist, journalist and style icon.

'Daphne Descends' is the title of a song from rock band Smashing Pumpkins' album 'Adore'.

A famous fictional bearer is Daphne Manners, heroine of Paul Mark Scott's novel "The Jewel in the Crown" (1966).

I love this name! I named my daughter Daphne because it's unusual enough where she won't have anyone in her class with that name, but it's a name people have heard of before. I like unusual names but not ones that people just make up or that are just trendy. Daphne is neither made up or trendy.

It's really bright and cheerful! I think of the color yellow when I hear this.

My name is Daphne. I constantly get compliments on my name; people say that my unique name befits my unique personality. I have never met another Daphne.
As for teasing? In early gradeschool there was the inevitable "Daffy Duck" but as I progressed into third grade, everybody was just too lazy to make fun of my name.
But whenever I tell people my name, I get the reply of "Like from Scooby Doo?" It's actually pretty funny.
It is a lot of the time mispronounced as "Daph-UH-nee" rather than the 2-syllable Daphne. It's misspelled a lot, too. (Daphney, Daphny, Daffney, Daffny, Daphine, Daphiny, Dafiny, etc.)
I overall like my name; and it sounds best paired with a 2-syllable middle name. (i.e. Daphne Nicole, Daphne Kathleen, Daphne Marie, etc.)

I like this name a lot and for some reason (I guess it's the "daph") it reminds me of the techno/music group "Daft Punk".

This name took a while to grow on me. I now feel it is very soft and sweetly feminine.

I think this is a beautiful, elegant name! I can easily see it on all a baby, a little girl, a teenager, a middle-aged woman, and an elderly woman.

A not-very-well-known bearer is Daphne Greengrass, a Slytherin apart of Malfoy's gang (along with Blaise Zabini and Pansy Parkinson) who eventually becomes Draco Malfoy's sister-in-law, after he married another Slytherin by the name of Astoria Greengrass.
Daphne Greengrass is only mentioned once in the entire book series, when she is called to take O.W.Ls with Hermione in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

My little sister has this name. It is a rather nice name, although we do tease her about it. When I feel like calling her by a nickname I call her Phnee or Fluff.

Daphne Tolhurst was Laurence "Lol" Tolhurst's mum.

Everybody I've ever met has pronounced my name at first as "DAF-uh-nee", with three syllables, rather than two, probably to ease the pronunciation. It's a consistent problem with every Floridian and Marylander (the places I've lived) I've ever met :/

Daphne Maxwell Reid replaced Janet Hubert-Whitten as Vivian "Aunt Viv" Banks on "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air."

This is the name of my sister's dog, and I rather like it. It's classy, which fits the dog in question perfect. She is often called "Daffy" and "Daffis", which may not sound as good on a human.

I've always loved this name, and I'm fairly certain I always will. It's classic and pretty, like that. I'm not one for looking to backstories to names, but I love the story of Daphne, because it's different to others; so many nymphs in Greek mythology just submit to the gods, but Daphne was different; she ran from that, and I consider it more of a protection what happened then.
So, long story short, I love this name. :)

I don't know. It's cute, I guess, but all I can think of is a duck (thanks a lot Looney Toons!)

It's an anagram of:
Had pen
Hen pad

I don't get the appeal of Daphne, it sounds ditzy and "daft" literally. It sounds like a common name trying to be sophisticated, and elegant. Daphne also sounds sort of 'late 60s-70s' to me probably because of Scooby Doo.

Reminds me of Daphnia.
Something we study a lot in Biology.

Daphne Fowler (b. 1939) is a well-known British quiz champion who appears regularly in the show "Eggheads".

British actress and radio presenter Daphne Oxenford (1919-2012). Her combo was Daphne Margaret, and she had daughters named Kate and Sophie.
She was best-known for presenting the children's programme "Listen With Mother" - and the obituary in The Guardian newspaper says that although there were other presenters she was the most popular, partly owing to her name:
'She always treasured the quote of the little boy who said: "I like stories on the wireless because the pictures are better." There were other presenters of the programme – Julia Lang, Dorothy Smith and Eileen Browne (who sang the nursery rhymes with George Dixon) – but the euphony of Daphne Oxenford's name, and her mellow, flawless vocal delivery made her the main attraction.'

Daphne Heard (1904-83) was also a British actress. Here full combo was Delia Phyllis Daphne. She became generally well-known as tycoon Richard de Vere's Czech mother in the popular sit-com "To The Manor Born".

It is somewhat appealing and has a pretty sound, but it feels quite pretentious. I do love girls names ending in the ee sound that aren't nicknames, though. This just seems like something that some elitist British snobs would name their kid. I can't figure out where the association is from.