Dionne
Dionne is given to both girls and boys: 16 girls and 5 boys were given it in 2025 (#6,911 among girls’ names and #12,516 among boys’, #10,035 among all names counting both); 10,305 Americans have been recorded with it since 1931 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,530 Americans named Dionne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 44 and 57.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dionne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dionne mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dionne is “a female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Dione.”
(surname): From French Dionne
(given name): From Latin Dione, from Ancient Greek Διώνη (Diṓnē)
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dionne?
#6,911 among girls’ names, 2025
Dionne fell from #6,294 in 2015 to #6,911 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.2 to 10.0 per million.
850 babies in 1970, the peak
Dionne peaked in 1970, when 850 babies were given it (835 girls, #321 among girls’ names). The 21 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 2% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,911 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,333 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,011 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,356 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,442 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,136 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,242 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,081 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,933 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,695 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,294 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,666 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,539 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,867 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,485 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,773 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,839 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 23 | #5,993 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 29 | #4,990 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,774 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,611 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 34 | #4,111 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,126 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 38 | #3,535 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,801 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 39 | #3,411 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 44 | #3,005 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 58 | #2,405 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 63 | #2,175 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 46 | #2,682 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 53 | #2,424 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 44 | #2,761 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 77 | #1,852 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 80 | #1,800 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 65 | #2,073 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 71 | #1,938 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 94 | #1,522 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 85 | #1,552 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 97 | #1,387 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 138 | #1,084 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 127 | #1,133 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 125 | #1,104 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 152 | #960 | 0.09 |
| 1982 | 179 | #861 | 0.11 |
| 1981 | 234 | #713 | 0.14 |
| 1980 | 265 | #666 | 0.16 |
| 1979 | 201 | #790 | 0.13 |
| 1978 | 187 | #801 | 0.12 |
| 1977 | 274 | #614 | 0.18 |
| 1976 | 242 | #638 | 0.17 |
| 1975 | 339 | #521 | 0.23 |
| 1974 | 336 | #512 | 0.23 |
| 1973 | 475 | #415 | 0.33 |
| 1972 | 529 | #391 | 0.35 |
| 1971 | 734 | #344 | 0.44 |
| 1970 | 835 | #321 | 0.48 |
| 1969 | 769 | #327 | 0.46 |
| 1968 | 606 | #368 | 0.37 |
| 1967 | 444 | #449 | 0.27 |
| 1966 | 246 | #603 | 0.15 |
| 1965 | 242 | #627 | 0.14 |
| 1964 | 75 | #1,285 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 51 | #1,581 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 39 | #1,833 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 35 | #1,964 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 40 | #1,791 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 36 | #1,856 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 38 | #1,770 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 31 | #1,961 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 42 | #1,640 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 27 | #2,074 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 32 | #1,848 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 36 | #1,656 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,076 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 13 | #2,974 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 20 | #2,201 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,438 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,662 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,298 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,744 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,776 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,188 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,893 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,783 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,073 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,970 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,548 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,901 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,449 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,226 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 15 | #2,109 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,728 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,654 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,477 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dionne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 10,305 Americans recorded as Dionne, 96% are girls and 4% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dionne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dionne, and how old are they?
9,530 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 10,305 Americans ever recorded as Dionne. The median Dionne alive today is 53 years old; half are between 44 and 57.
The 2020 Census counted 9,523 people named Dionne (9,162 women and girls, 361 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,624 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 38 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 459 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 6,380 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,750 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 637 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 257 |
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 Dionne born?
The states with the most babies named Dionne are California, Louisiana and New York, with 31% 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 | 810 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 796 | not ranked | 3.8× |
| New York | 690 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 556 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 556 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 481 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 407 | #3,426 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 355 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 311 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| District of Columbia | 249 | not ranked | 3.9× |
Where Dionne is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dionne is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1931 it was given 3.9 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 Dionne 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 691,396 babies since 1880, Dionne is the fourth most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 190 babies (11%), again the fourth 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 Dionne
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 Dionne and names like it
- Compare Dionne and DianeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDionne peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dionne since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Dionne.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Dionne alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.