Dafna as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Dafna

What is the meaning of the name Dafna ?

The baby name Dafna is a girl name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced DAHF-nah.

Dafna is Greek, Hebrew in Origin.

Dafna is the Hebrew form דַּפְנָה, a feminine noun and name borrowed from Ancient Greek δάφνη (dáphnē), laurel or bay tree. The Greek word is already classical, appearing as both a plant name and the mythological nymph Daphne; its deeper etymology is uncertain and may be pre-Greek. Hebrew adapts it with final -a, matching many feminine nouns and names.

As a given name, Dafna belongs chiefly to modern Hebrew and Israeli usage rather than biblical naming. It sits beside international cognates such as Daphne, Dafne, Dafni, Defne, and Dafina, all tied to the laurel. The Greek myth, in which Daphne becomes the laurel sacred to Apollo, shaped the name’s European literary presence. In the United States it has remained rare, mostly visible from late twentieth-century records onward.