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Dillon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 253 in 2025. Its best rank was #73 in 1992.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #73 in 1992; #930 in 2025. About 86% of babies named Dillon in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#930 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1992, at #73.
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Dillon: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 253 boys in 2025. Peak: #73 in 1992 · most boys in one year: 5,062 (1992).
In 2025, 253 US boys were named Dillon, making it the 930th most common boys’ name of the year, down 67 places from #863 in 2024. That is 27 fewer than the 280 boys named Dillon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #73, reached in 1992. That year also had the most boys given the name: 5,062. For comparison, it was #448 in 2015 and #3,104 in 1950.
In 2025, 41 US girls were named Dillon, making it the 3,658th most common girls’ name of the year, down 415 places from #3,243 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 49 girls named Dillon in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,726, reached in 2020. That year also had the most girls given the name: 61. For comparison, it was #4,891 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dillon in 116 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1892 with 6 babies. In all, 66,270 US babies have been given the name, 1.6% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 32,839 babies named Dillon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,121 US boys were named Dillon; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 670. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,751 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dillon ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #342 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Dillan (7,387 babies since 1880), Dilan (6,138 babies since 1880), Dylon (4,517 babies since 1880) and Dyllan (3,802 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Deleon, Dillen and Dillyn are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Deleon (981), Dillen (747), Dillyn (634), Dillian (610), Dilynn (548), Dillin (545), Dillynn (56), Dellon (34), Dellen (7).
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 Dillon in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 28 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 5 | #342 | — |
| Louisiana | 10 | #463 | #320 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #511 | #408 |
| Oregon | 6 | #546 | #508 |
| Maryland | 8 | #590 | #349 |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #640 | #292 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #646 | #550 |
| Illinois | 13 | #691 | #565 |
| New Jersey | 8 | #784 | #371 |
| North Carolina | 11 | #790 | #339 |
| Alabama | 5 | #793 | #736 |
| Michigan | 8 | #854 | #485 |
| Arizona | 6 | #867 | #498 |
| California | 27 | #867 | #442 |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #868 | #435 |
| Indiana | 6 | #883 | #548 |
| Florida | 14 | #969 | #418 |
| Virginia | 6 | #999 | #501 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,018 | #595 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,074 | #500 |
| Texas | 21 | #1,075 | #534 |
| New York | 10 | #1,144 | #442 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,327 | #350 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,658 | 253 | #930 |
| 2024 | 49 | #3,243 | 280 | #863 |
| 2023 | 59 | #2,860 | 336 | #768 |
| 2022 | 55 | #3,002 | 360 | #724 |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,169 | 403 | #670 |
| 2020 | 61 | #2,726 | 392 | #668 |
| 2019 | 42 | #3,626 | 421 | #640 |
| 2018 | 47 | #3,359 | 463 | #592 |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,579 | 543 | #525 |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,022 | 670 | #459 |
| 2015 | 28 | #4,891 | 686 | #448 |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,126 | 787 | #397 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,180 | 795 | #379 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,442 | 872 | #353 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,249 | 878 | #346 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,623 | 1,055 | #304 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,758 | 1,131 | #292 |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,929 | 1,308 | #266 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,632 | 1,549 | #235 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,373 | 1,610 | #223 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,016 | 1,897 | #203 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,631 | 1,951 | #197 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,646 | 2,011 | #188 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,541 | 1,847 | #201 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,429 | 2,141 | #175 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,352 | 2,263 | #169 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,975 | 2,682 | #142 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,641 | 2,838 | #134 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,880 | 2,887 | #132 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,345 | 3,025 | #121 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,752 | 3,035 | #122 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,305 | 3,534 | #101 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,705 | 4,282 | #90 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,907 | 5,062 | #73 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,481 | 3,634 | #103 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,451 | 1,682 | #184 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,105 | 1,027 | #251 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,272 | 787 | #294 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,034 | 700 | #307 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,786 | 603 | #329 |
| 1985 | — | — | 381 | #436 |
| 1984 | — | — | 275 | #515 |
| 1983 | — | — | 231 | #553 |
| 1982 | — | — | 170 | #672 |
| 1981 | — | — | 161 | #683 |
| 1980 | — | — | 166 | #673 |
| 1979 | — | — | 99 | #878 |
| 1978 | — | — | 69 | #1,051 |
| 1977 | — | — | 71 | #1,020 |
| 1976 | — | — | 52 | #1,195 |
| 1975 | — | — | 47 | #1,243 |
| 1974 | — | — | 52 | #1,139 |
| 1973 | — | — | 36 | #1,408 |
| 1972 | — | — | 20 | #2,034 |
| 1971 | — | — | 21 | #1,999 |
| 1970 | — | — | 16 | #2,321 |
| 1969 | — | — | 7 | #3,683 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #3,804 |
| 1967 | — | — | 8 | #3,054 |
| 1966 | — | — | 8 | #3,050 |
| 1965 | — | — | 9 | #2,840 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,201 |
| 1963 | — | — | 8 | #3,115 |
| 1962 | — | — | 9 | #2,898 |
| 1961 | — | — | 12 | #2,444 |
| 1960 | — | — | 7 | #3,426 |
| 1959 | — | — | 6 | #3,702 |
| 1957 | — | — | 8 | #3,080 |
| 1956 | — | — | 8 | #3,024 |
| 1955 | — | — | 8 | #3,033 |
| 1954 | — | — | 11 | #2,493 |
| 1953 | — | — | 9 | #2,760 |
| 1952 | — | — | 13 | #2,177 |
| 1951 | — | — | 6 | #3,438 |
| 1950 | — | — | 7 | #3,104 |
| 1949 | — | — | 11 | #2,372 |
| 1948 | — | — | 6 | #3,398 |
| 1947 | — | — | 8 | #2,925 |
| 1946 | — | — | 13 | #2,054 |
| 1945 | — | — | 8 | #2,613 |
| 1944 | — | — | 10 | #2,347 |
| 1943 | — | — | 14 | #2,001 |
| 1942 | — | — | 8 | #2,760 |
| 1941 | — | — | 9 | #2,526 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,581 |
| 1939 | — | — | 11 | #2,196 |
| 1938 | — | — | 11 | #2,224 |
| 1937 | — | — | 9 | #2,536 |
| 1936 | — | — | 11 | #2,212 |
| 1935 | — | — | 12 | #2,160 |
| 1934 | — | — | 16 | #1,798 |
| 1933 | — | — | 10 | #2,409 |
| 1932 | — | — | 14 | #2,025 |
| 1931 | — | — | 15 | #1,954 |
| 1930 | — | — | 14 | #2,100 |
| 1929 | — | — | 9 | #2,812 |
| 1928 | — | — | 18 | #1,849 |
| 1927 | — | — | 13 | #2,322 |
| 1926 | — | — | 20 | #1,741 |
| 1925 | — | — | 15 | #2,114 |
| 1924 | — | — | 18 | #1,911 |
| 1923 | — | — | 19 | #1,824 |
| 1922 | — | — | 17 | #1,970 |
| 1921 | — | — | 19 | #1,846 |
| 1920 | — | — | 21 | #1,709 |
| 1919 | — | — | 13 | #2,291 |
| 1918 | — | — | 15 | #2,089 |
| 1917 | — | — | 18 | #1,764 |
| 1916 | — | — | 22 | #1,522 |
| 1915 | — | — | 14 | #1,994 |
| 1914 | — | — | 15 | #1,626 |
| 1913 | — | — | 16 | #1,326 |
| 1912 | — | — | 6 | #2,347 |
| 1911 | — | — | 8 | #1,308 |
| 1895 | — | — | 6 | #1,006 |
| 1892 | — | — | 6 | #985 |
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).