girls:
2.4k births since 1929
#3555 (38th percentile)
boys:
567 births since 1965
#4019 (12th percentile)
overall:
2.9k births since 1929
#5000 (35th percentile)
The name Dione is the #5,000 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,940 recorded births since 1929. This represents the 35.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 35.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,555 (37.8% percentile) for all time with 2,373 births since 1929. For boys, it ranks #4,019 (12.3% percentile) for all time with 567 births since 1965.
Dione first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1929 (1929 for girls and 1965 for boys). Birth data for Dione is available in 90 out of the 95 years between 1929 and 2023 (82 years for girls and 52 years for boys). 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 Dione has been given predominantly to girls, with 80.7% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Dione were girls.
For girls, Dione reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 20.2% percentile (ranked #617) with 88 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 88 births per million (ranked 20.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Dione ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 4.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Dione reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 2.4% percentile (ranked #652) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dione".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Dione. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 34.2% confident that Dione is pronounced as dee-OHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAI-ohn, at 21.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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