Dionna
Dionna was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,184 among girls’ names; 3,780 Americans have been recorded with it since 1951 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,660 Americans named Dionna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 25 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dionna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dionna?
#11,184 among girls’ names, 2025
Dionna fell from #7,365 in 2015 to #11,184 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.0 to 5.0 per million.
163 babies in 1994, the peak
Dionna peaked in 1994, when 163 girls were given it, #1,099 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,184 | 5.0 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,346 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,666 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,356 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,008 | 9.9 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,115 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,914 | 15.9 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,711 | 12.7 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,327 | 14.1 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,365 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 34 | #4,291 | 19.0 |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,682 | 17.1 |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,600 | 25.0 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,274 | 19.3 |
| 2010 | 48 | #3,373 | 27.0 |
| 2009 | 55 | #3,101 | 29.9 |
| 2008 | 65 | #2,777 | 34.4 |
| 2007 | 67 | #2,723 | 34.8 |
| 2006 | 54 | #3,099 | 28.4 |
| 2005 | 74 | #2,381 | 40.0 |
| 2004 | 63 | #2,625 | 34.3 |
| 2003 | 61 | #2,611 | 33.4 |
| 2002 | 73 | #2,251 | 40.6 |
| 2001 | 80 | #2,077 | 44.4 |
| 2000 | 95 | #1,816 | 52.3 |
| 1999 | 106 | #1,580 | 59.8 |
| 1998 | 100 | #1,622 | 56.6 |
| 1997 | 105 | #1,535 | 60.3 |
| 1996 | 88 | #1,710 | 50.2 |
| 1995 | 123 | #1,338 | 69.9 |
| 1994 | 163 | #1,099 | 91.3 |
| 1993 | 119 | #1,375 | 65.8 |
| 1992 | 109 | #1,450 | 59.1 |
| 1991 | 88 | #1,676 | 46.9 |
| 1990 | 85 | #1,717 | 44.8 |
| 1989 | 101 | #1,451 | 54.8 |
| 1988 | 76 | #1,689 | 42.7 |
| 1987 | 81 | #1,555 | 46.6 |
| 1986 | 66 | #1,755 | 38.5 |
| 1985 | 92 | #1,394 | 53.5 |
| 1984 | 92 | #1,324 | 54.6 |
| 1983 | 73 | #1,541 | 43.7 |
| 1982 | 75 | #1,570 | 44.3 |
| 1981 | 90 | #1,372 | 54.0 |
| 1980 | 79 | #1,504 | 47.6 |
| 1979 | 81 | #1,474 | 50.5 |
| 1978 | 62 | #1,692 | 40.5 |
| 1977 | 62 | #1,684 | 40.4 |
| 1976 | 50 | #1,845 | 34.1 |
| 1975 | 69 | #1,485 | 47.3 |
| 1974 | 53 | #1,714 | 36.1 |
| 1973 | 36 | #2,185 | 24.7 |
| 1972 | 51 | #1,729 | 33.5 |
| 1971 | 77 | #1,378 | 46.3 |
| 1970 | 76 | #1,372 | 43.5 |
| 1969 | 56 | #1,596 | 33.2 |
| 1968 | 42 | #1,839 | 25.6 |
| 1967 | 32 | #2,091 | 19.4 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,599 | 7.7 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,295 | 8.5 |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,144 | 9.0 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,079 | 5.7 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,435 | 3.5 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,613 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dionna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dionna has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 64 years of records.
Girls and boys named Dionna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dionna, and how old are they?
3,660 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,780 Americans ever recorded as Dionna. The median Dionna alive today is 34 years old; half are between 25 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 3,109 people named Dionna (3,099 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,632 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 34 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 798 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,490 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,110 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 234 |
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 Dionna born?
The states with the most babies named Dionna are Ohio, California and Illinois, with 47% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 296 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| California | 262 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 204 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 182 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 167 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 107 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 78 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Maryland | 64 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 48 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 45 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Dionna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dionna is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1951 it was given 1.7 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 Dionna 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 572,451 babies since 1880, Dionna is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 1,574 babies (<1%), again the sixth 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 Dionna
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 Dionna and names like it
- Compare Dionna and DianaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDionna peaked in 1994.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dionna since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Dionna.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Dionna alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.