Dione
Dione was last recorded in 2025, when 6 babies were given it; 2,946 Americans have been recorded with it between 1929 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,650 Americans named Dione and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 41 and 57.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dione by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dione mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dione is “a female given name from Ancient Greek.” Its etymology gives the senses “of Jupiter” (Diōnē) and “of Zeus” (Διώνη).
From Latin Diōnē (“of Jupiter”), from Ancient Greek Διώνη (Diṓnē, “of Zeus”).
/daɪˈoʊni/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dione?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,473, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
182 babies in 1970, the peak
Dione peaked in 1970, when 182 babies were given it (161 girls, #840 among girls’ names). The 6 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 6 | #10,999 | |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,473 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,592 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,873 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 6 | #10,955 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 8 | #9,087 | |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,838 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,932 | 5 | #12,771 |
| 2016 | under 5 | 6 | #11,078 | |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,994 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (91)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #17,253 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 9 | #8,279 | |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,534 | 7 | #9,980 |
| 2011 | under 5 | 8 | #8,957 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 6 | #11,098 | |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,773 | 8 | #9,199 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,860 | 8 | #9,200 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,044 | 5 | #12,844 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,883 | 11 | #7,040 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,000 | 7 | #9,374 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,649 | 5 | #11,819 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,460 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 8 | #7,840 | |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,334 | 21 | #3,872 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,011 | 10 | #6,432 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,924 | 13 | #5,103 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,140 | 17 | #4,056 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,966 | 8 | #6,777 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,730 | 16 | #4,057 |
| 1995 | under 5 | 21 | #3,215 | |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,044 | 13 | #4,594 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,193 | 10 | #5,449 |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,939 | 13 | #4,380 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,547 | 19 | #3,240 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,215 | 9 | #5,481 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,255 | 14 | #3,857 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,608 | 12 | #3,968 |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,015 | 8 | #5,083 |
| 1986 | 29 | #3,148 | 13 | #3,491 |
| 1985 | 40 | #2,447 | 13 | #3,455 |
| 1984 | 32 | #2,793 | 7 | #5,112 |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,604 | 11 | #3,681 |
| 1982 | 50 | #2,061 | 10 | #4,019 |
| 1981 | 70 | #1,648 | 6 | #5,678 |
| 1980 | 66 | #1,708 | 21 | #2,385 |
| 1979 | 61 | #1,779 | 10 | #3,874 |
| 1978 | 50 | #1,945 | 10 | #3,671 |
| 1977 | 70 | #1,541 | 8 | #4,275 |
| 1976 | 58 | #1,686 | 9 | #3,798 |
| 1975 | 79 | #1,353 | 19 | #2,306 |
| 1974 | 99 | #1,157 | 20 | #2,146 |
| 1973 | 105 | #1,090 | 11 | #3,063 |
| 1972 | 121 | #989 | 10 | #3,207 |
| 1971 | 144 | #909 | 18 | #2,226 |
| 1970 | 161 | #840 | 21 | #1,952 |
| 1969 | 142 | #882 | 13 | #2,452 |
| 1968 | 90 | #1,126 | 6 | #3,804 |
| 1967 | 64 | #1,377 | 6 | #3,657 |
| 1966 | 63 | #1,387 | 6 | #3,626 |
| 1965 | 44 | #1,698 | 8 | #3,044 |
| 1964 | 26 | #2,426 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,561 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,840 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 22 | #2,626 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 30 | #2,110 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 25 | #2,301 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,779 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,061 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,650 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,863 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 22 | #2,317 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,314 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,211 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,720 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,940 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,437 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,661 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,885 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,557 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,709 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,732 | under 5 | |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,835 | under 5 | |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,068 | under 5 | |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,804 | under 5 | |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,225 | under 5 | |
| 1934 | 15 | #2,108 | under 5 | |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,301 | under 5 | |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,891 | under 5 | |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,616 | under 5 | |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,744 | under 5 | |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,741 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Dione a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,946 Americans recorded as Dione, 81% are girls and 19% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 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 Dione: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dione, and how old are they?
2,650 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 2,946 Americans ever recorded as Dione. The median Dione alive today is 52 years old; half are between 41 and 57.
The 2020 Census counted 2,638 people named Dione (2,188 women and girls, 450 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,702 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 24 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 253 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,490 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 544 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 252 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 90 |
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 Dione born?
The states with the most babies named Dione are California, Louisiana and Illinois, with 51% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 182 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 133 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Illinois | 89 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 74 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 60 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 58 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 54 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 37 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Missouri | 20 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 19 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Dione is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dione is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1929 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Dione 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,035,917 babies since 1880, Dione is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 1,567 babies (<1%), again the seventh most given.
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 Dione
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 Dione and names like it
- Compare Dione and DianeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDione peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dione since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Dione: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Dione.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Dione alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.