Defne is the Turkish form of Daphne — Greek for "laurel." The laurel was sacred to Apollo and the symbol of victory; Defne preserves this ancient connection in Turkish naming tradition.
Used widely in modern Turkey.
Defne 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.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Defne reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.