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.
Where Dionne is popular in 1981
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- District of Columbia#152 · 1 in 578
- Maryland#352 · 1 in 2,329
- Louisiana#354 · 1 in 2,042
- Alabama#386 · 1 in 2,526
- Florida#394 · 1 in 2,705
Best ever in a state: #64 in District of Columbia, 1971.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | #152 | 10 | 1 in 578 |
| Maryland | #352 | 9 | 1 in 2,329 |
| Louisiana | #354 | 15 | 1 in 2,042 |
| Alabama | #386 | 9 | 1 in 2,526 |
| Florida | #394 | 20 | 1 in 2,705 |
| South Carolina | #445 | 6 | 1 in 2,990 |
| Georgia | #479 | 10 | 1 in 3,482 |
| Pennsylvania | #516 | 15 | 1 in 4,623 |
| Illinois | #530 | 18 | 1 in 4,175 |
| Ohio | #581 | 12 | 1 in 6,021 |
| Tennessee | #589 | 5 | 1 in 5,578 |
| New York | #686 | 18 | 1 in 5,630 |
| Michigan | #764 | 7 | 1 in 8,380 |
| New Jersey | #813 | 5 | 1 in 7,453 |
| Texas | #906 | 14 | 1 in 8,838 |
| California | #1,206 | 14 | 1 in 12,949 |
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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 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 1981
Top girls' names in 1981
Top boys' names in 1981
More about 1981
girls
1,668,060 girls got a published name in 1981; 1 in 7,128 of them was named Dionne, which outranked 94.2% of the 12,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,791,177 boys got a published name in 1981; 1 in 162,834 of them was named Dionne, which outranked 50.6% of the 7,289 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,412Wilber12
- #3,412Yan12
- #3,412Zeth12
- #3,601Dionne11
- #3,601Aamir11
- #3,601Abdulrahman11
- #3,601Abrahan11
- #3,858Adin10
- #3,858Aditya10
- #3,858Adrienne10
Tied with 256 names at #3,601; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.