Dionne

Where Dionne comes from

* (surname): From French Dionne * (given name): From Latin Dione, from Ancient Greek Διώνη (Diṓnē)
— Wiktionary's entry for Dionne
  • Ancient Greek
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1931
    First appearance
    #4,331 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1940
    Dionne Warwick born
    American singer
  3. 1970
    Peak, #321
    835 babies named Dionne — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1974
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #512.
  5. 1996
    Dionne Bromfield born
    British singer
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Dione.
Namesakes
  • Dionne Warwick · American singer, born 1940
  • Dionne Bromfield · British singer, born 1996
  • Dionne Farris · American R&B singer, born 1969
  • Dionne Brand · Canadian writer, poet, born 1953
  • Dionne Bunsha · Indian journalist, born 1901

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.