Dionna
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #7,905
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1994 · 163 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,775since 1951
Dionna over time
Rank among girls' names. Dionna has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #10,917 | 8 | — | |
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | #7,247 | 15 | — | |
| 2022 | #8,542 | 12 | — | |
| 2021 | #7,250 | 15 | — | |
| 2020 | #6,923 | 16 | — | |
| 2019 | #7,025 | 16 | — | |
| 2018 | #4,889 | 27 | — | |
| 2017 | #5,661 | 22 | — | |
| 2016 | #5,284 | 25 | — | |
| 2015 | #7,266 | 16 | — | |
| 2014 | #4,269 | 34 | — | |
| 2013 | #4,645 | 30 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,583 | 44 | — | |
| 2011 | #4,244 | 34 | — | |
| 2010 | #3,360 | 48 | — | |
| 2009 | #3,088 | 55 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,773 | 65 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,710 | 67 | — | |
| 2006 | #3,090 | 54 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,379 | 74 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,620 | 63 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,610 | 61 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,251 | 73 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,075 | 80 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,817 | 95 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,580 | 106 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,620 | 100 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,530 | 105 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,711 | 88 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,337 | 123 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,100 | 163 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,374 | 119 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,452 | 109 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,677 | 88 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,716 | 85 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,454 | 101 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #1,686 | 76 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,553 | 81 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,751 | 66 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,395 | 92 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,323 | 92 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,531 | 73 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,566 | 75 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,368 | 90 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,502 | 79 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,471 | 81 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,690 | 62 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,682 | 62 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,840 | 50 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,481 | 69 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,709 | 53 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,171 | 36 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,724 | 51 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,376 | 77 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,369 | 76 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,591 | 56 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,834 | 42 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,079 | 32 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,558 | 13 | — | |
| 1965 | #3,264 | 15 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,108 | 17 | — | |
| 1963 | #4,019 | 11 | — | |
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| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 | — | |
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| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Dionna! It came in at #5,414, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1951–1960, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Dionna is popular in 1989
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Pennsylvania#631 · 1 in 5,986
- Ohio#726 · 1 in 7,761
- North Carolina#832 · 1 in 8,137
- Illinois#908 · 1 in 8,588
- Michigan#1,049 · 1 in 12,090
Best ever in a state: #257 in District of Columbia, 1985.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | #631 | 12 | 1 in 5,986 |
| Ohio | #726 | 9 | 1 in 7,761 |
| North Carolina | #832 | 5 | 1 in 8,137 |
| Illinois | #908 | 9 | 1 in 8,588 |
| Michigan | #1,049 | 5 | 1 in 12,090 |
| New York | #1,681 | 6 | 1 in 19,798 |
| Texas | #2,022 | 5 | 1 in 26,677 |
| California | #2,383 | 7 | 1 in 34,855 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Dionna
- 3,994 spots since 2020 (#6,923 → #10,917)
- 3,651 spots since 2015 (#7,266 → #10,917)
- Debuted 1951
- Peaked 1994 at #1,100 (163 births)
- Births halved by 2001, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,956 girls born in 1994 were named Dionna (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 28.8% of all girls named Dionna (1,086) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #5,414 (1951) | #5,414 |
| 1960s | 193 | #1,591 (1969) | #3,095 |
| 1970s | 617 | #1,369 (1970) | #1,651 |
| 1980s | 825 | #1,323 (1984) | #1,513 |
| 1990s | 1,086 | #1,100 (1994) | #1,510 |
| 2000s | 687 | #1,817 (2000) | #2,541 |
| 2010s | 296 | #3,360 (2010) | #5,023 |
| 2020s | 66 | #6,923 (2020) | #8,176 |
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.
Dionna in 1989
Top girls' names in 1989
Top boys' names in 1989
More about 1989
girls
1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 18,253 of them was named Dionna, which outranked 90.0% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,444Pricilla102
- #1,444Tierney102
- #1,444Vanity102
- #1,454Dionna101
- #1,454Jonathan101
- #1,454Kayle101
- #1,454Maricruz101
- #1,461Ayanna100
- #1,461Breeanna100
- #1,461Consuelo100
Tied with 6 names at #1,454; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 400,186 of them was named Dionna, which outranked 14.4% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,327 names at #7,905; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.