girls:
69 births since 1986
#5647 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.4k births since 1966
#3207 (30th percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1966
#6240 (19th percentile)
The name Dijon is the #6,240 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,505 recorded births since 1966. This represents the 19.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 19.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,207 (30.0% percentile) for all time with 1,436 births since 1966. For girls, it ranks #5,647 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 69 births since 1986.
Dijon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1966 (1966 for boys and 1986 for girls). Birth data for Dijon is available in 47 out of the 58 years between 1966 and 2023 (47 years for boys and 7 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Dijon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Dijon reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 16.5% percentile (ranked #635) with 62 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 62 births per million (ranked 16.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Dijon ranks #905 for boys (0.7% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 9.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Dijon reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #835) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dijon".
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Our model has identified 18 different pronunciations for the name Dijon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 15.8% confident that Dijon is pronounced as DEE-zhahn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DEE-ZHAHN, at 12.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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