Dijon
Dijon was given to 7 boys in 2025, #9,949 among boys’ names; 1,519 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,470 Americans named Dijon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 24 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dijon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dijon?
#9,949 among boys’ names, 2025
Dijon fell from #6,772 in 2015 to #9,949 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.3 to 4.1 per million.
152 babies in 1991, the peak
Dijon peaked in 1991, when 152 babies were given it (132 boys, #911 among boys’ names). The 7 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,949 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,160 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,391 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,222 | 8.0 |
| 2021 | 17 | #5,388 | 9.7 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,302 | 9.8 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,508 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,805 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,407 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,117 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #6,772 | 6.3 |
| 2014 | 16 | #5,537 | 8.3 |
| 2013 | 19 | #4,846 | 10.0 |
| 2012 | 14 | #6,071 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,683 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 23 | #4,269 | 12.0 |
| 2009 | 30 | #3,572 | 15.1 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,575 | 10.3 |
| 2007 | 20 | #4,678 | 9.6 |
| 2006 | 26 | #3,813 | 12.7 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,681 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,840 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 17 | #4,657 | 8.6 |
| 2002 | 27 | #3,281 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 39 | #2,494 | 20.1 |
| 2000 | 42 | #2,303 | 21.4 |
| 1999 | 39 | #2,309 | 20.3 |
| 1998 | 52 | #1,876 | 27.2 |
| 1997 | 57 | #1,707 | 30.2 |
| 1996 | 62 | #1,586 | 32.7 |
| 1995 | 72 | #1,390 | 37.8 |
| 1994 | 93 | #1,191 | 48.1 |
| 1993 | 114 | #1,031 | 58.1 |
| 1992 | 76 | #1,291 | 38.0 |
| 1991 | 132 | #911 | 65.3 |
| 1990 | 52 | #1,588 | 25.3 |
| 1989 | 43 | #1,767 | 21.5 |
| 1988 | 34 | #1,912 | 17.8 |
| 1987 | 29 | #2,070 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 29 | #2,016 | 15.7 |
| 1985 | 17 | #2,855 | 9.2 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,319 | 7.2 |
| 1983 | 18 | #2,599 | 10.0 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,158 | 7.7 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,530 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,061 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,098 | 3.0 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,290 | 3.2 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,093 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dijon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,519 Americans recorded as Dijon, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dijon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dijon, and how old are they?
1,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,519 Americans ever recorded as Dijon. The median Dijon alive today is 31 years old; half are between 24 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 1,106 people named Dijon (102 women and girls, 1,004 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,417 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 23 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 831 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 445 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 171 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Dijon born?
The states with the most babies named Dijon are California, New York and Florida, with 69% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 186 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 106 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 44 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 38 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 31 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 23 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 17 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 13 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 7 | not ranked | 0.3× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Dijon with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,585 babies since 1880, Dijon is the most given (96% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dijon
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Dijon and names like it
- Compare Dijon and DijuanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDijon peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dijon since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Dijon.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Dijon alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.