Given name
Dafina
“precious”
Dafina is a feminine given name. It is used in Albanian.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1973. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dafina through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 133
- 0 boys · 133 girls
- Most popular year
- 1974
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 12 in 1974. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 299 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Dafina’s family of names
In Macedonian usage, Dafina is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Дафина. In Bulgarian usage, Dafina is a transliteration of Дафина.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Dafina
- Dafina ZeqiriKosovo-Albanian singerborn 1993
- Dafina ZeqiriKosovar composer/artistborn 1984
- Dafina MemedovAlbanian footballerborn 1990
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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