Dionne
Masculine · “of Zeus”
Dionne is given to both — 445 boys and 9,860 girls since 1880. See Dionne as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Dionne entered the US charts in 1967, peaked at #1862 in 1971, ranks #12008 in 2025 — given to only a few children a year.
How old is the name Dionne?
Dionne first appears in US birth records in 1967 — 58 years ago. The typical Dionne alive today was born around 1985, making them about 40 years old. About 400 people named Dionne are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Dionne most popular?
Dionne peaked in 1971, reaching #1862 nationally. Today it ranks #12008, 10,146 places below that high. See the whole 1971 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Dionysos to Dionne
The story of Dionne
Dionysus was the Greek god of wine, ecstasy and the theater — tragedy and comedy were both performed at his festival. Saint Dionysius carried the name into Christian use, and French made Denis, Denise and Dionne. The name became visible in twentieth-century America partly through the Dionne quintuplets of 1934, and it peaked around 1968.
Meaningscholars disagree
of Zeus, of Nysa
Through Dionysus, whose name joins Dio- (the genitive of Zeus) to Nysa, a mountain in the myths that no geographer has ever identified. The French Dionne is a feminine of Dion. A separate Dionne is a French-Canadian surname, and both feed the modern name.
How the name formed
- Dionysos
- Dion
- Dionne
Related forms: Dionne · Dion · Denise
Pronouncing Dionne
dee-ON
Two syllables, stress on the second. Some bearers say dee-OWN with a longer final vowel.
Nicknames for Dionne
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
- 1967
- Most boys named
- 197123 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1862reached in 1971
- Change vs 2023
- 0.0%5 in 2025, from 5
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.
Dionne in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Dionne in French — same name
- Dion in English — related form
- Denise in French — related form
Dionnes among us
people named Dionne are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 341,615 born in 2025 was named Dionne
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Dionne
- #12008
- Dionne on the 2025 chart
- #917
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Dionne went to 5 boys in 2025, but Dione is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 11, which makes it the 917th most-given boys’ name of the year — 11,091 places above the chart.
- Dione6
- Dionne5
About 1 boy in 155,280 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 341,615 for Dionne itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Orlen test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Dionne's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Orlen climbed just as high around 1934, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Orlen's path sketches the road Dionne is walking now.
Dionne 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
Dionne beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Dionne in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
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Masculine · #12008 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Dionnes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 400 people named Dionne are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Dionne?
- Dionne is one of 2 recorded spellings. Dione is the more common one — 6 births in 2025 against 5 for Dionne.
- How popular is the name Dionne in 2025?
- Dionne ranks #12008 among US boy names in 2025, with 5 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Dionne?
- About 1 in every 341,615 US boys born in 2025 was named Dionne — 5 in all.
- Will my child share the name Dionne with classmates?
- Dionne will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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