Dijon

Where Dijon comes from

Dijon hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1966
    First appearance
    #3,948 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1983
    Dijon Thompson born
    American basketball player
  3. 1991
    Peak, #915
    132 babies named Dijon — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1996
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,586.
  5. 2004
    Dijon Kameri born
    Austrian association football player
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Dijon Kameri · Austrian association football player, born 2004
  • Dijon Thompson · American basketball player, born 1983
  • Dijon Talton · actor and singer, born 1989

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.