Dionne
#6,838 for girls in 2025, 16 births · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to girls 95.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1970 · 835 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 9,860since 1931
Dionne over time
Rank among girls' names. Dionne has never cracked the top 300 here.
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 | #6,838 | 16 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #7,251 | 15 | — | |
| 2023 | #6,922 | 16 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #5,309 | 24 | — | |
| 2021 | #5,398 | 23 | — | |
| 2020 | #6,083 | 19 | #9,554 | 7 |
| 2019 | #8,138 | 13 | — | |
| 2018 | #6,010 | 20 | #9,670 | 7 |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 | — | |
| 2016 | #7,602 | 15 | — | |
| 2015 | #6,236 | 20 | — | |
| 2014 | #5,625 | 23 | — | |
| 2013 | #6,462 | 19 | — | |
| 2012 | #4,836 | 29 | — | |
| 2011 | #4,466 | 32 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | #4,735 | 30 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | #4,805 | 30 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #5,955 | 23 | — | |
| 2007 | #4,944 | 29 | #10,921 | 6 |
| 2006 | #5,709 | 23 | #9,585 | 7 |
| 2005 | #6,528 | 18 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #4,093 | 34 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #4,109 | 32 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | #3,523 | 38 | #9,392 | 6 |
| 2001 | #3,785 | 34 | — | |
| 2000 | #3,404 | 39 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,991 | 44 | #5,317 | 12 |
| 1998 | #2,398 | 58 | #8,479 | 6 |
| 1997 | #2,174 | 63 | #4,960 | 12 |
| 1996 | #2,672 | 46 | #4,396 | 14 |
| 1995 | #2,421 | 53 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #2,752 | 44 | #4,094 | 15 |
| 1993 | #1,854 | 77 | #6,816 | 7 |
| 1992 | #1,798 | 80 | — | |
| 1991 | #2,073 | 65 | #7,271 | 6 |
| 1990 | #1,938 | 71 | #7,178 | 6 |
| 1989 | #1,523 | 94 | #3,325 | 17 |
| 1988 | #1,551 | 85 | #3,915 | 12 |
| 1987 | #1,387 | 97 | #4,239 | 10 |
| 1986 | #1,084 | 138 | #3,440 | 13 |
| 1985 | #1,133 | 127 | #4,698 | 8 |
| 1984 | #1,103 | 125 | — | |
| 1983 | #959 | 152 | #3,630 | 11 |
| 1982 | #859 | 179 | #4,234 | 9 |
| 1981 | #712 | 234 | #3,601 | 11 |
| 1980 | #666 | 265 | #3,098 | 14 |
| 1979 | #789 | 201 | #4,403 | 8 |
| 1978 | #801 | 187 | #2,669 | 16 |
| 1977 | #612 | 274 | #3,203 | 12 |
| 1976 | #637 | 242 | #2,709 | 15 |
| 1975 | #521 | 339 | #2,540 | 16 |
| 1974 | #512 | 336 | #2,549 | 15 |
| 1973 | #415 | 475 | #3,223 | 10 |
| 1972 | #391 | 529 | #2,418 | 15 |
| 1971 | #344 | 734 | #1,862 | 23 |
| 1970 | #321 | 835 | #2,399 | 15 |
| 1969 | #327 | 769 | #2,549 | 12 |
| 1968 | #368 | 606 | #2,907 | 9 |
| 1967 | #449 | 444 | #2,985 | 8 |
| 1966 | #603 | 246 | — | |
| 1965 | #627 | 242 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,281 | 75 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,580 | 51 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,826 | 39 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,955 | 35 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,789 | 40 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,852 | 36 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,762 | 38 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,957 | 31 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,637 | 42 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,063 | 27 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,836 | 32 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,648 | 36 | — | |
| 1952 | #3,040 | 13 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,937 | 13 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,185 | 20 | — | |
| 1949 | #3,393 | 10 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,593 | 9 | — | |
| 1947 | #3,240 | 11 | — | |
| 1946 | #3,665 | 8 | — | |
| 1945 | #2,742 | 11 | — | |
| 1944 | #3,139 | 9 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,801 | 7 | — | |
| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 | — | |
| 1941 | #3,030 | 9 | — | |
| 1940 | #3,863 | 6 | — | |
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| 1938 | #3,450 | 7 | — | |
| 1937 | #3,800 | 6 | — | |
| 1936 | #3,376 | 7 | — | |
| 1935 | #3,156 | 8 | — | |
| 1934 | #2,087 | 15 | — | |
| 1933 | #2,688 | 10 | — | |
| 1932 | #3,568 | 7 | — | |
| 1931 | #4,331 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Dionne! It came in at #4,331, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1939, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Dionne
- 413 spots since 2024 (#7,251 → #6,838)
- 755 spots since 2020 (#6,083 → #6,838)
- 602 spots since 2015 (#6,236 → #6,838)
- Biggest jump: 654 spots in 1965 (#1,281 → #627)
- Biggest drop: 189 spots in 1978 (#612 → #801)
- Debuted 1931
- Peaked 1970 at #321 (835 births)
- Births halved by 1974, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 19 yrs · run 1965–1983
- Highest: 1 in 2,094 girls born in 1970 were named Dionne (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 100,454 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 42.1% of all girls named Dionne (4,152) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 65 | #2,087 (1934) | #3,307 |
| 1940s | 85 | #2,742 (1945) | #3,509 |
| 1950s | 288 | #1,637 (1956) | #2,092 |
| 1960s | 2,547 | #327 (1969) | #1,081 |
| 1970s | 4,152 | #321 (1970) | #534 |
| 1980s | 1,496 | #666 (1980) | #1,098 |
| 1990s | 601 | #1,798 (1992) | #2,307 |
| 2000s | 300 | #3,404 (2000) | #4,686 |
| 2010s | 213 | #4,466 (2011) | #6,289 |
| 2020s | 113 | #5,309 (2022) | #6,300 |
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.
Dionne in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 8,192 of them was named Dionne, which outranked 93.0% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 102,615 of them was named Dionne, which outranked 60.5% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,568Yarnell17
- #2,568Yves17
- #2,568Zakary17
- #2,669Dionne16
- #2,669Alexi16
- #2,669Alvino16
- #2,669Ana16
- #2,799Aloysius15
- #2,799Alpha15
- #2,799Americo15
Tied with 129 names at #2,669; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.