Diondre
Masculine · “Greek Dion”
Plato tried to make a philosopher-king and it went badly. His pupil Dion of Syracuse brought him to Sicily to educate a tyrant, the experiment failed twice, Dion seized the city himself, and was murdered by another of Plato's students.
How old is the name Diondre?
Diondre first appears in US birth records in 1969 — 56 years ago. The typical Diondre alive today was born around 1999, making them about 26 years old. About 1,400 people named Diondre are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Diondre most popular?
Diondre peaked in 1996, reaching #1400 nationally. Today it ranks #9714, 8,314 places below that high. See the whole 1996 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Zeus to Diondre
The story of Diondre
Dion was the brother-in-law of Dionysius I of Syracuse and a devoted follower of Plato, who visited Sicily three times between about 388 and 360 BC at Dion's urging, hoping to shape the young Dionysius II into a ruler guided by philosophy. It failed completely: Plato was placed under house arrest on one visit and nearly killed on another, and Dion was exiled. In 357 Dion returned with a small force, took Syracuse, ruled briefly and was assassinated in 354 by Callippus, another Academy man. Plato's Seventh Letter, whether genuine or not, is the ancient account and reads as an apology for the whole episode. It is the closest the ancient world came to testing the argument of the Republic in practice, and the result was three coups and two murders.
Meaningscholars disagree
Greek Dion, of Zeus
Diondre joins Dion, a Greek name meaning of Zeus, from the oblique stem Di- of the god's name, to an -ondre or -andre ending taken from Andre. Dion is a genuine ancient name; the compound is American. Andre descends from Greek aner, andros, a man. The peak is 1996.
How the name formed
- Zeus
- Dion
- Diondre
Related forms: Deondre · Dion
Pronouncing Diondre
dee-ON-dray
Three syllables, stress on the second. The final -dre is said dray, following French rather than English spelling rules.
Nicknames for Diondre
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1969
- Most boys named
- 199675 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1400reached in 1996
- Change vs 2024
- −41.7%7 in 2025, from 12
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Diondre in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Deondre in English — spelling variant
- Dion in Greek — related form
Diondres among us
people named Diondre are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 244,011 born in 2025 was named Diondre
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Joselito test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Diondre's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Joselito climbed just as high around 1973, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Joselito's path sketches the road Diondre is walking now.
Diondre sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Diondre beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Diondre in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Dion and Dre are both complete names as short forms.
- Three syllables with clear middle stress.
- The final syllable is fully sounded, giving a firm ending.
- Deondre is an equally common spelling.
- The -dre ending is not an English pattern.
- The prefix element carries no meaning here.
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Frequently asked
- How many Diondres are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Diondre are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Diondre in 2025?
- Diondre ranks #9714 among US boy names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Diondre?
- About 1 in every 244,011 US boys born in 2025 was named Diondre — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Diondre with classmates?
- Diondre will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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