Dione
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #12,197 · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 80.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1970 · 161 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,373since 1929
Dione 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 | — | #10,695 | 6 | |
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 | — | |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | — | |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | — | |
| 2020 | — | #10,605 | 6 | |
| 2019 | — | #8,889 | 8 | |
| 2018 | #12,464 | 7 | — | |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | — | #10,744 | 6 | |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | — | |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | — | |
| 2013 | — | #8,118 | 9 | |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 | #9,709 | 7 |
| 2011 | — | #8,767 | 8 | |
| 2010 | — | #10,766 | 6 | |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 | #9,019 | 8 |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #6,904 | 11 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | #9,115 | 7 |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | — | |
| 2002 | — | #7,643 | 8 | |
| 2001 | #8,196 | 12 | #3,842 | 21 |
| 2000 | #10,745 | 8 | #6,316 | 10 |
| 1999 | #6,836 | 14 | #5,035 | 13 |
| 1998 | #6,073 | 16 | #4,019 | 17 |
| 1997 | #6,844 | 13 | #6,618 | 8 |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 | #4,022 | 16 |
| 1995 | — | #3,191 | 21 | |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #4,537 | 13 |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1992 | #8,734 | 9 | #4,327 | 13 |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 | #3,224 | 19 |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 | #5,382 | 9 |
| 1989 | #6,160 | 13 | #3,809 | 14 |
| 1988 | #3,585 | 26 | #3,915 | 12 |
| 1987 | #3,983 | 21 | #4,968 | 8 |
| 1986 | #3,135 | 29 | #3,440 | 13 |
| 1985 | #2,440 | 40 | #3,401 | 13 |
| 1984 | #2,781 | 32 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | #2,595 | 34 | #3,630 | 11 |
| 1982 | #2,050 | 50 | #3,966 | 10 |
| 1981 | #1,641 | 70 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | #1,704 | 66 | #2,367 | 21 |
| 1979 | #1,770 | 61 | #3,810 | 10 |
| 1978 | #1,938 | 50 | #3,614 | 10 |
| 1977 | #1,538 | 70 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | #1,677 | 58 | #3,724 | 9 |
| 1975 | #1,350 | 79 | #2,288 | 19 |
| 1974 | #1,157 | 99 | #2,129 | 20 |
| 1973 | #1,088 | 105 | #3,013 | 11 |
| 1972 | #988 | 121 | #3,152 | 10 |
| 1971 | #909 | 144 | #2,203 | 18 |
| 1970 | #840 | 161 | #1,939 | 21 |
| 1969 | #881 | 142 | #2,415 | 13 |
| 1968 | #1,123 | 90 | #3,673 | 6 |
| 1967 | #1,372 | 64 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1966 | #1,385 | 63 | #3,537 | 6 |
| 1965 | #1,689 | 44 | #2,982 | 8 |
| 1964 | #2,412 | 26 | — | |
| 1963 | #2,543 | 23 | — | |
| 1962 | #3,782 | 12 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,608 | 22 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,097 | 30 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,289 | 25 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,755 | 18 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,033 | 15 | — | |
| 1956 | #2,622 | 19 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,839 | 16 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,295 | 22 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,301 | 21 | — | |
| 1952 | #4,123 | 8 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,694 | 15 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,909 | 13 | — | |
| 1949 | #3,393 | 10 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,593 | 9 | — | |
| 1947 | #4,764 | 6 | — | |
| 1946 | #4,417 | 6 | — | |
| 1945 | #4,556 | 5 | — | |
| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 | — | |
| 1943 | #4,691 | 5 | — | |
| 1942 | — | — | ||
| 1941 | #3,954 | 6 | — | |
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| 1936 | #3,701 | 6 | — | |
| 1935 | #3,156 | 8 | — | |
| 1934 | #2,087 | 15 | — | |
| 1933 | #2,275 | 13 | — | |
| 1932 | #1,877 | 18 | — | |
| 1931 | #2,581 | 11 | — | |
| 1930 | #3,658 | 7 | — | |
| 1929 | #4,570 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Dione! It came in at #4,570, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1937–1940, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Dione
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2023
- Biggest jump: 242 spots in 1969 (#1,123 → #881)
- Biggest drop: 100 spots in 1973 (#988 → #1,088)
- Debuted 1929
- Peaked 1970 at #840 (161 births)
- Births halved by 1975, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 1969–1972
- Highest: 1 in 10,858 girls born in 1970 were named Dione (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 229,226 girls born in 2023 (0.00%)
- 39.9% of all girls named Dione (948) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2024, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | #4,570 (1929) | #4,570 |
| 1930s | 78 | #1,877 (1932) | #2,762 |
| 1940s | 52 | #3,393 (1949) | #4,243 |
| 1950s | 172 | #2,289 (1959) | #2,786 |
| 1960s | 516 | #881 (1969) | #1,989 |
| 1970s | 948 | #840 (1970) | #1,326 |
| 1980s | 381 | #1,641 (1981) | #3,007 |
| 1990s | 99 | #6,073 (1998) | #8,315 |
| 2000s | 63 | #8,196 (2001) | #13,656 |
| 2010s | 38 | #8,776 (2017) | #12,887 |
| 2020s | 21 | #10,383 (2022) | #12,610 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Dione in 1929
Top girls' names in 1929
More about 1929
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1,116,561 girls got a published name in 1929; 1 in 223,312 of them was named Dione, which outranked 13.4% of the 5,277 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 707 names at #4,570; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.