Meaning not yet researched.
Dillion: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #539 in 1992.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #539 in 1992; #5,446 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dillion in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,446 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1992, at #539.
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Dillion: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 boys in 2025. Peak: #539 in 1992 · most boys in one year: 354 (1992).
In 2025, 17 US boys were named Dillion, making it the 5,446th most common boys’ name of the year, down 156 places from #5,290 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 18 boys named Dillion in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #539, reached in 1992. That year also had the most boys given the name: 354. For comparison, it was #4,433 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dillion in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 6 babies. In all, 3,661 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,001 babies named Dillion.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 235 US boys were named Dillion; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 35. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,475 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Dillon (66,270 babies since 1880), Dillan (7,387 babies since 1880) and Dyllon (1,267 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 Dillion 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 | — | — | 17 | #5,446 |
| 2024 | — | — | 18 | #5,290 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,891 | 17 | #5,514 |
| 2022 | — | — | 19 | #5,074 |
| 2021 | — | — | 23 | #4,401 |
| 2020 | — | — | 26 | #3,947 |
| 2019 | — | — | 25 | #4,143 |
| 2018 | — | — | 35 | #3,259 |
| 2017 | — | — | 23 | #4,360 |
| 2016 | — | — | 32 | #3,461 |
| 2015 | — | — | 22 | #4,433 |
| 2014 | — | — | 37 | #3,051 |
| 2013 | — | — | 34 | #3,206 |
| 2012 | — | — | 43 | #2,785 |
| 2011 | — | — | 36 | #3,125 |
| 2010 | — | — | 50 | #2,478 |
| 2009 | — | — | 50 | #2,537 |
| 2008 | — | — | 60 | #2,212 |
| 2007 | — | — | 83 | #1,774 |
| 2006 | — | — | 84 | #1,688 |
| 2005 | — | — | 98 | #1,480 |
| 2004 | — | — | 115 | #1,297 |
| 2003 | — | — | 124 | #1,192 |
| 2002 | — | — | 121 | #1,171 |
| 2001 | — | — | 136 | #1,062 |
| 2000 | — | — | 149 | #993 |
| 1999 | — | — | 172 | #880 |
| 1998 | — | — | 173 | #845 |
| 1997 | — | — | 184 | #798 |
| 1996 | — | — | 176 | #818 |
| 1995 | — | — | 178 | #803 |
| 1994 | — | — | 224 | #696 |
| 1993 | — | — | 275 | #621 |
| 1992 | — | — | 354 | #539 |
| 1991 | — | — | 186 | #747 |
| 1990 | — | — | 79 | #1,242 |
| 1989 | — | — | 37 | #1,960 |
| 1988 | — | — | 33 | #1,959 |
| 1987 | — | — | 32 | #1,947 |
| 1986 | — | — | 20 | #2,621 |
| 1985 | — | — | 11 | #3,862 |
| 1984 | — | — | 10 | #3,999 |
| 1983 | — | — | 8 | #4,618 |
| 1982 | — | — | 8 | #4,708 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,532 |
| 1980 | — | — | 7 | #5,076 |
| 1979 | — | — | 6 | #5,533 |
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).