Dior
Where Dior comes from
Dior 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
- 1977First appearance#8,444 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
- 1987Dior Lowhorn bornAmerican basketball player
- 1993Mostly girls from hereUntil now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
- 1994Dior Angus bornEnglish association football player
- 2020Peak, #499613 babies named Dior — more than any year before or since.
- 2024The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births — down to #978.
In the dictionary
No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.
Namesakes
- Dior Lowhorn · American basketball player, born 1987
- Dior Angus · English association football player, born 1994
- Dior Goodjohn · American actor, born 2006
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.