Meaning not yet researched.
Dion: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 155 in 2025. Its best rank was #338 in 1969.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #338 in 1969; #1,268 in 2025. About 96% of babies named Dion in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,268 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1969, at #338.
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Dion: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 155 boys in 2025. Peak: #338 in 1969 · most boys in one year: 554 (1970).
In 2025, 155 US boys were named Dion, making it the 1,268th most common boys’ name of the year, down 148 places from #1,120 in 2024. That is 36 fewer than the 191 boys named Dion in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #338, reached in 1969. The most boys given the name in a single year was 554, in 1970. For comparison, it was #1,284 in 2015 and #1,667 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dion in 97 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1929 with 6 babies. In all, 20,164 US babies have been given the name, 6.2% of them girls and 94% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 4,478 babies named Dion.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,811 US boys were named Dion; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 257. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,020 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dion ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #731 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Deion (6,166 babies since 1880), Diane (520,034 babies since 1880), Dean (195,844 babies since 1880) and Deon (16,988 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Diyon 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: Diyon (31).
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 Dion 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 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 6 | #731 | #657 |
| New Jersey | 8 | #785 | — |
| New York | 17 | #808 | #1,024 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #813 | — |
| Michigan | 8 | #855 | #1,014 |
| Arizona | 5 | #953 | — |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,129 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,132 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,182 | #1,161 |
| California | 15 | #1,260 | #1,270 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,342 | #919 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,512 | #1,302 |
| Texas | 11 | #1,584 | #1,115 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,654 | 155 | #1,268 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,084 | 191 | #1,120 |
| 2023 | — | — | 201 | #1,076 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,741 | 257 | #902 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,737 | 200 | #1,067 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,660 | 231 | #952 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,286 | 158 | #1,212 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,009 | 129 | #1,367 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,166 | 145 | #1,257 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,527 | 144 | #1,268 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,151 | 139 | #1,284 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,410 | 164 | #1,154 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,306 | 160 | #1,135 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,540 | 159 | #1,153 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,525 | 142 | #1,231 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,000 | 180 | #1,074 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,036 | 169 | #1,095 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,947 | 167 | #1,101 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,319 | 193 | #1,004 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,983 | 186 | #995 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,609 | 180 | #970 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,391 | 209 | #849 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,370 | 201 | #858 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,019 | 200 | #833 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,860 | 221 | #773 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,772 | 247 | #710 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,929 | 277 | #637 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,222 | 257 | #665 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,276 | 285 | #615 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,734 | 329 | #560 |
| 1995 | — | — | 335 | #555 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,894 | 357 | #542 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,931 | 387 | #519 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,665 | 366 | #530 |
| 1991 | — | — | 298 | #589 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,356 | 351 | #526 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,395 | 341 | #520 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,120 | 258 | #574 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,677 | 269 | #554 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,863 | 222 | #597 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,686 | 252 | #554 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,204 | 252 | #548 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,850 | 245 | #535 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,059 | 220 | #580 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,165 | 260 | #522 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,034 | 272 | #514 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,266 | 311 | #466 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,415 | 364 | #405 |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,928 | 371 | #406 |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,817 | 377 | #399 |
| 1975 | 43 | #2,029 | 455 | #363 |
| 1974 | 32 | #2,406 | 396 | #390 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,145 | 411 | #379 |
| 1972 | 30 | #2,411 | 416 | #386 |
| 1971 | 46 | #1,885 | 497 | #362 |
| 1970 | 53 | #1,726 | 554 | #344 |
| 1969 | 42 | #1,938 | 533 | #338 |
| 1968 | 37 | #1,985 | 465 | #360 |
| 1967 | 32 | #2,090 | 360 | #404 |
| 1966 | 25 | #2,418 | 330 | #418 |
| 1965 | 26 | #2,360 | 284 | #461 |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,025 | 273 | #479 |
| 1963 | 18 | #2,986 | 313 | #449 |
| 1962 | 18 | #2,953 | 265 | #485 |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,869 | 233 | #520 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,746 | 189 | #568 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,880 | 127 | #679 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,593 | 217 | #522 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,301 | 66 | #930 |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,973 | 23 | #1,654 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,354 | 28 | #1,465 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,366 | 27 | #1,471 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,760 | 26 | #1,486 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,767 | 18 | #1,818 |
| 1951 | — | — | 23 | #1,562 |
| 1950 | — | — | 20 | #1,667 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,433 | 16 | #1,884 |
| 1948 | — | — | 16 | #1,896 |
| 1947 | — | — | 28 | #1,401 |
| 1946 | — | — | 25 | #1,415 |
| 1945 | — | — | 21 | #1,458 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,733 | 26 | #1,316 |
| 1943 | — | — | 18 | #1,718 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,235 | 15 | #1,887 |
| 1941 | — | — | 23 | #1,424 |
| 1940 | — | — | 13 | #2,012 |
| 1939 | — | — | 39 | #1,016 |
| 1938 | — | — | 50 | #888 |
| 1937 | — | — | 11 | #2,236 |
| 1936 | — | — | 7 | #2,952 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,861 | 14 | #1,956 |
| 1934 | — | — | 16 | #1,799 |
| 1933 | — | — | 12 | #2,118 |
| 1932 | — | — | 12 | #2,221 |
| 1931 | — | — | 8 | #2,910 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,138 |
| 1929 | — | — | 6 | #3,658 |
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).