girls:
955 births since 1986
#4761 (17th percentile)
boys:
64.7k births since 1892
#413 (91st percentile)
overall:
65.6k births since 1892
#909 (88th percentile)
The name Dillon is the #909 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 65,641 recorded births since 1892. This represents the 88.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #413 (91.0% percentile) for all time with 64,686 births since 1892. For girls, it ranks #4,761 (16.7% percentile) for all time with 955 births since 1986.
Dillon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1892 (1892 for boys and 1986 for girls). Birth data for Dillon is available in 114 out of the 132 years between 1892 and 2023 (114 years for boys and 38 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 Dillon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.5% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 85.0% of babies named Dillon were boys.
For boys, Dillon reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 90.6% percentile (ranked #73) with 2,412 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 2,412 births per million (ranked 90.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1995, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Dillon ranks #599 for boys (34.3% percentile) with 182 births per million, which is 7.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Dillon reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 6.0% percentile (ranked #884) with 35 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 35 births per million (ranked 6.0% percentile). Despite a peak around 2008, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Dillon is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #893 (5.7% percentile) with 34 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dillon".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Dillon is pronounced as DIH-luhn, which has 2 syllables.
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