boys:
2.1k births since 1882
#2759 (40th percentile)
overall:
2.1k births since 1882
#5709 (26th percentile)
The name Dionicio is the #5,709 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,073 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 26.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 26.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,759 (39.8% percentile) for all time with 2,073 births since 1882.
Dionicio first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (first recorded for boys in 1882). Birth data for Dionicio is available in 121 out of the 142 years between 1882 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Dionicio reached its peak popularity in 1976, achieving the 4.3% percentile (ranked #628) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1887, with 46 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Dionicio ranks #902 for boys (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 16.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dionicio".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Dionicio. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.7% confident that Dionicio is pronounced as dee-oh-NIH-shee-oh, which has 5 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is dai-oh-NIH-shee-oh, at 15.8% confidence, with 5 syllables.
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