Dijon
Last seen for girls in 1994 at #13,430 · #9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
Given to boys 95.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1991 · 132 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,450since 1966
Dijon over time
Rank among boys' names. Dijon has never cracked the top 900 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #9,714 | 7 | |
| 2024 | — | #9,894 | 7 | |
| 2023 | — | #7,289 | 11 | |
| 2022 | — | #6,147 | 14 | |
| 2021 | — | #5,338 | 17 | |
| 2020 | — | #5,235 | 17 | |
| 2019 | — | #6,406 | 13 | |
| 2018 | — | #6,703 | 12 | |
| 2017 | — | #6,338 | 13 | |
| 2016 | — | #6,053 | 14 | |
| 2015 | — | #6,676 | 12 | |
| 2014 | — | #5,485 | 16 | |
| 2013 | — | #4,804 | 19 | |
| 2012 | — | #6,001 | 14 | |
| 2011 | — | #6,578 | 12 | |
| 2010 | — | #4,241 | 23 | |
| 2009 | — | #3,551 | 30 | |
| 2008 | — | #4,540 | 21 | |
| 2007 | — | #4,640 | 20 | |
| 2006 | — | #3,782 | 26 | |
| 2005 | — | #4,631 | 18 | |
| 2004 | — | #4,793 | 17 | |
| 2003 | — | #4,616 | 17 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,259 | 27 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,489 | 39 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,298 | 42 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,300 | 39 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,871 | 52 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,706 | 57 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,586 | 62 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,393 | 72 | |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #1,192 | 93 |
| 1993 | #6,622 | 13 | #1,033 | 114 |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | #1,294 | 76 |
| 1991 | #4,808 | 20 | #915 | 132 |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | #1,587 | 52 |
| 1989 | — | #1,766 | 43 | |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | #1,909 | 34 |
| 1987 | — | #2,057 | 29 | |
| 1986 | #6,156 | 11 | #2,007 | 29 |
| 1985 | — | #2,828 | 17 | |
| 1984 | — | #3,270 | 13 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,577 | 18 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,108 | 14 | |
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| 1979 | — | #5,355 | 6 | |
| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
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| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
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| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Dijon! It came in at #3,948, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1966–1978, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Dijon is popular in 1966
No state had 5 or more boys named Dijon in 1966, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Dijon
- 180 spots since 2024 (#9,894 → #9,714)
- 4,479 spots since 2020 (#5,235 → #9,714)
- 3,038 spots since 2015 (#6,676 → #9,714)
- Biggest jump: 672 spots in 1991 (#1,587 → #915)
- Biggest drop: 379 spots in 1992 (#915 → #1,294)
- Debuted 1966
- Peaked 1991 at #915 (132 births)
- Births halved by 1996, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1991
- Highest: 1 in 15,306 boys born in 1991 were named Dijon (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 244,011 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 51.7% of all boys named Dijon (749) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #3,948 (1966) | #3,948 |
| 1970s | 21 | #5,101 (1973) | #5,518 |
| 1980s | 197 | #1,766 (1989) | #2,440 |
| 1990s | 749 | #915 (1991) | #1,488 |
| 2000s | 257 | #2,298 (2000) | #3,860 |
| 2010s | 148 | #4,241 (2010) | #5,929 |
| 2020s | 73 | #5,235 (2020) | #7,270 |
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.
Dijon in 1966
Top boys' names in 1966
More about 1966
boys
1,783,461 boys got a published name in 1966; 1 in 356,692 of them was named Dijon, which outranked 13.0% of the 4,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 592 names at #3,948; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.