Dion
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #1,267 for boys in 2025, 155 births
Given to boys 93.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1969 · 533 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 18,914since 1929
Dion over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #1,267 | 155 |
| 2024 | #8,946 | 11 | #1,119 | 191 |
| 2023 | — | #1,073 | 201 | |
| 2022 | #7,631 | 14 | #902 | 257 |
| 2021 | #7,630 | 14 | #1,067 | 200 |
| 2020 | #7,559 | 14 | #950 | 231 |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 | #1,209 | 158 |
| 2018 | #9,806 | 10 | #1,364 | 129 |
| 2017 | #9,943 | 10 | #1,256 | 145 |
| 2016 | #8,393 | 13 | #1,266 | 144 |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 | #1,283 | 139 |
| 2014 | #7,302 | 16 | #1,153 | 164 |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 | #1,135 | 160 |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 | #1,151 | 159 |
| 2011 | #7,436 | 16 | #1,229 | 142 |
| 2010 | #7,880 | 15 | #1,068 | 180 |
| 2009 | #8,888 | 13 | #1,095 | 169 |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | #1,100 | 167 |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | #1,002 | 193 |
| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 | #994 | 186 |
| 2005 | #7,500 | 15 | #967 | 180 |
| 2004 | #8,259 | 13 | #849 | 209 |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #857 | 201 |
| 2002 | #8,837 | 11 | #832 | 200 |
| 2001 | #7,724 | 13 | #773 | 221 |
| 2000 | #5,705 | 19 | #710 | 247 |
| 1999 | #6,836 | 14 | #637 | 277 |
| 1998 | #7,104 | 13 | #665 | 257 |
| 1997 | #5,228 | 19 | #614 | 285 |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 | #560 | 329 |
| 1995 | — | #555 | 335 | |
| 1994 | #4,845 | 20 | #542 | 357 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | #519 | 387 |
| 1992 | #7,512 | 11 | #529 | 366 |
| 1991 | — | #589 | 298 | |
| 1990 | #5,286 | 17 | #526 | 351 |
| 1989 | #4,358 | 21 | #519 | 341 |
| 1988 | #5,065 | 16 | #574 | 258 |
| 1987 | #5,613 | 13 | #554 | 269 |
| 1986 | #5,757 | 12 | #597 | 222 |
| 1985 | #4,635 | 16 | #554 | 252 |
| 1984 | #4,166 | 18 | #547 | 252 |
| 1983 | #3,806 | 20 | #535 | 245 |
| 1982 | #4,025 | 19 | #579 | 220 |
| 1981 | #3,147 | 27 | #521 | 260 |
| 1980 | #3,992 | 19 | #514 | 272 |
| 1979 | #3,236 | 25 | #466 | 311 |
| 1978 | #3,388 | 22 | #405 | 364 |
| 1977 | #2,909 | 27 | #406 | 371 |
| 1976 | #2,792 | 27 | #399 | 377 |
| 1975 | #2,023 | 43 | #363 | 455 |
| 1974 | #2,396 | 32 | #389 | 396 |
| 1973 | #3,122 | 21 | #378 | 411 |
| 1972 | #2,398 | 30 | #386 | 416 |
| 1971 | #1,877 | 46 | #362 | 497 |
| 1970 | #1,719 | 53 | #343 | 554 |
| 1969 | #1,927 | 42 | #338 | 533 |
| 1968 | #1,975 | 37 | #360 | 465 |
| 1967 | #2,079 | 32 | #404 | 360 |
| 1966 | #2,407 | 25 | #418 | 330 |
| 1965 | #2,345 | 26 | #461 | 284 |
| 1964 | #3,000 | 18 | #478 | 273 |
| 1963 | #2,960 | 18 | #449 | 313 |
| 1962 | #2,922 | 18 | #485 | 265 |
| 1961 | #2,839 | 19 | #520 | 233 |
| 1960 | #3,688 | 12 | #567 | 189 |
| 1959 | #3,827 | 11 | #677 | 127 |
| 1958 | #3,543 | 12 | #522 | 217 |
| 1957 | #4,202 | 9 | #928 | 66 |
| 1956 | #3,910 | 10 | #1,642 | 23 |
| 1955 | #5,208 | 6 | #1,458 | 28 |
| 1954 | #3,325 | 12 | #1,466 | 27 |
| 1953 | #3,687 | 10 | #1,480 | 26 |
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 | #1,804 | 18 |
| 1951 | — | #1,553 | 23 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,657 | 20 | |
| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 | #1,872 | 16 |
| 1948 | — | #1,881 | 16 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,394 | 28 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,409 | 25 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,445 | 21 | |
| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 | #1,311 | 26 |
| 1943 | — | #1,699 | 18 | |
| 1942 | #4,124 | 6 | #1,867 | 15 |
| 1941 | — | #1,411 | 23 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,983 | 13 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,015 | 39 | |
| 1938 | — | #883 | 50 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,197 | 11 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,854 | 7 | |
| 1935 | #3,742 | 6 | #1,929 | 14 |
| 1934 | — | #1,783 | 16 | |
| 1933 | — | #2,093 | 12 | |
| 1932 | — | #2,191 | 12 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,864 | 8 | |
| 1930 | — | #4,001 | 5 | |
| 1929 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Dion! It came in at #3,559, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1929–1930, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
See more about Dion
- 148 spots since 2024 (#1,119 → #1,267)
- 317 spots since 2020 (#950 → #1,267)
- 16 spots since 2015 (#1,283 → #1,267)
- Biggest jump: 1,314 spots in 1938 (#2,197 → #883)
- Biggest drop: 171 spots in 2023 (#902 → #1,073)
- Debuted 1929
- Peaked 1969 at #338 (533 births)
- Births halved by 1981, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 53 yrs · run 1957–2006
- Highest: 1 in 3,354 boys born in 1970 were named Dion (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 11,020 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #338 in 1969, was only 1 in 3,355 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 22.0% of all boys named Dion (4,152) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 6 | #3,559 (1929) | #3,559 |
| 1930s | 174 | #883 (1938) | #2,181 |
| 1940s | 201 | #1,311 (1944) | #1,627 |
| 1950s | 575 | #522 (1958) | #1,319 |
| 1960s | 3,245 | #338 (1969) | #448 |
| 1970s | 4,152 | #343 (1970) | #390 |
| 1980s | 2,591 | #514 (1980) | #549 |
| 1990s | 3,242 | #519 (1993) | #574 |
| 2000s | 1,973 | #710 (2000) | #918 |
| 2010s | 1,520 | #1,068 (2010) | #1,211 |
| 2020s | 1,235 | #902 (2022) | #1,063 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Dion in 1980
Top girls' names in 1980
Top boys' names in 1980
More about 1980
girls
1,660,307 girls got a published name in 1980; 1 in 87,385 of them was named Dion, which outranked 67.2% of the 12,161 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,853Tyronza20
- #3,853Velia20
- #3,853Vincent20
- #3,992Dion19
- #3,992Adelaide19
- #3,992Adelle19
- #3,992Africa19
- #4,148Aimie18
- #4,148Alanda18
- #4,148Aleia18
Tied with 155 names at #3,992; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,783,951 boys got a published name in 1980; 1 in 6,559 of them was named Dion, which outranked 93.0% of the 7,293 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.