Daphne comes from the Greek daphnē (δάφνη), meaning "laurel tree." In Greek mythology, Daphne was a nymph who, fleeing the unwanted love of Apollo, was transformed by her father into a laurel tree at the moment of capture. Apollo's symbol — the laurel wreath — comes from this myth.
Daphne has been rising rapidly in the U.S. since 2010. Today Daphne sits in the U.S. top 200.
Daphne 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Daphne reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.