girls:
1.2k births since 1935
#4487 (21st percentile)
boys:
18.6k births since 1929
#843 (82nd percentile)
overall:
19.8k births since 1929
#1821 (76th percentile)
The name Dion is the #1,821 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 19,796 recorded births since 1929. This represents the 76.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 76.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #843 (81.6% percentile) for all time with 18,563 births since 1929. For girls, it ranks #4,487 (21.5% percentile) for all time with 1,233 births since 1935.
Dion first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1929 (1929 for boys and 1935 for girls).
The name Dion has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 93.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Dion reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 51.0% percentile (ranked #328) with 291 births per million. The name was most common in 1969, with 291 births per million (ranked 50.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Dion ranks #716 for boys (21.4% percentile) with 109 births per million, which is 37.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Dion reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 6.2% percentile (ranked #725) with 29 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 29 births per million (ranked 6.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dion".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Dion. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 38.3% confident that Dion is pronounced as DAI-uhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DEE-uhn, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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