Meaning not yet researched.
Dijon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #915 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #915 in 1991; #9,953 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dijon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,953 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #915.
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Dijon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 boys in 2025. Peak: #915 in 1991 · most boys in one year: 132 (1991).
In 2025, 7 US boys were named Dijon, making it the 9,953rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 212 places from #10,165 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 7 boys named Dijon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #915, reached in 1991. That year also had the most boys given the name: 132. For comparison, it was #6,777 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dijon in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1966 with 5 babies. In all, 1,519 US babies have been given the name, 4.5% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 800 babies named Dijon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 125 US boys were named Dijon; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 17. In 2025 that was about 1 in 244,011 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Dejon (2,683 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Dijon in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 7 | #9,953 |
| 2024 | — | — | 7 | #10,165 |
| 2023 | — | — | 11 | #7,396 |
| 2022 | — | — | 14 | #6,227 |
| 2021 | — | — | 17 | #5,393 |
| 2020 | — | — | 17 | #5,306 |
| 2019 | — | — | 13 | #6,513 |
| 2018 | — | — | 12 | #6,809 |
| 2017 | — | — | 13 | #6,411 |
| 2016 | — | — | 14 | #6,122 |
| 2015 | — | — | 12 | #6,777 |
| 2014 | — | — | 16 | #5,541 |
| 2013 | — | — | 19 | #4,849 |
| 2012 | — | — | 14 | #6,077 |
| 2011 | — | — | 12 | #6,690 |
| 2010 | — | — | 23 | #4,270 |
| 2009 | — | — | 30 | #3,574 |
| 2008 | — | — | 21 | #4,579 |
| 2007 | — | — | 20 | #4,680 |
| 2006 | — | — | 26 | #3,815 |
| 2005 | — | — | 18 | #4,686 |
| 2004 | — | — | 17 | #4,845 |
| 2003 | — | — | 17 | #4,662 |
| 2002 | — | — | 27 | #3,285 |
| 2001 | — | — | 39 | #2,499 |
| 2000 | — | — | 42 | #2,307 |
| 1999 | — | — | 39 | #2,312 |
| 1998 | — | — | 52 | #1,879 |
| 1997 | — | — | 57 | #1,710 |
| 1996 | — | — | 62 | #1,589 |
| 1995 | — | — | 72 | #1,395 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,042 | 93 | #1,195 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,738 | 114 | #1,035 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,806 | 76 | #1,296 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,851 | 132 | #915 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,798 | 52 | #1,593 |
| 1989 | — | — | 43 | #1,772 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,534 | 34 | #1,917 |
| 1987 | — | — | 29 | #2,074 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,279 | 29 | #2,018 |
| 1985 | — | — | 17 | #2,858 |
| 1984 | — | — | 13 | #3,321 |
| 1983 | — | — | 18 | #2,600 |
| 1982 | — | — | 14 | #3,159 |
| 1979 | — | — | 6 | #5,532 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #6,064 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,100 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,292 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,094 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).