Meaning not yet researched.
Dione: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,953 in 1970.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,953 in 1970; #11,003 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dione in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,003 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1970, at #1,953.
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Dione: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,953 in 1970 · most boys in one year: 21 (2001).
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Dione, making it the 11,003rd most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #1,953, reached in 1970. The most boys given the name in a single year was 21, in 2001. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Dione in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #840, reached in 1970. That year also had the most girls given the name: 161. For comparison, it was #14,999 in 2015 and #2,941 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dione in 91 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1929 with 5 babies. In all, 2,946 US babies have been given the name, 81% of them girls and 19% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,084 babies named Dione.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 31 US boys were named Dione; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 8. In 2025 that was about 1 in 284,679 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Diane (520,034 babies since 1880), Dianne (95,475 babies since 1880), Dion (20,164 babies since 1880) and Deon (16,988 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 Dione 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 | — | — | 6 | #11,003 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,478 | — | — |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,597 | — | — |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,878 | — | — |
| 2020 | — | — | 6 | #10,961 |
| 2019 | — | — | 8 | #9,092 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,843 | — | — |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,936 | 5 | #12,777 |
| 2016 | — | — | 6 | #11,083 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,999 | — | — |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,259 | — | — |
| 2013 | — | — | 9 | #8,284 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,541 | 7 | #9,986 |
| 2011 | — | — | 8 | #8,964 |
| 2010 | — | — | 6 | #11,105 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,779 | 8 | #9,204 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,865 | 8 | #9,206 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,050 | 5 | #12,850 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,888 | 11 | #7,045 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,007 | 7 | #9,381 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,655 | 5 | #11,826 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,467 | — | — |
| 2002 | — | — | 8 | #7,847 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,341 | 21 | #3,877 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,019 | 10 | #6,440 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,930 | 13 | #5,109 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,145 | 17 | #4,060 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,971 | 8 | #6,783 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,735 | 16 | #4,063 |
| 1995 | — | — | 21 | #3,220 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,050 | 13 | #4,600 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,199 | 10 | #5,455 |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,946 | 13 | #4,387 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,554 | 19 | #3,246 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,221 | 9 | #5,488 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,261 | 14 | #3,863 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,613 | 12 | #3,973 |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,018 | 8 | #5,090 |
| 1986 | 29 | #3,150 | 13 | #3,494 |
| 1985 | 40 | #2,448 | 13 | #3,458 |
| 1984 | 32 | #2,794 | 7 | #5,116 |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,605 | 11 | #3,682 |
| 1982 | 50 | #2,061 | 10 | #4,021 |
| 1981 | 70 | #1,648 | 6 | #5,680 |
| 1980 | 66 | #1,708 | 21 | #2,386 |
| 1979 | 61 | #1,779 | 10 | #3,876 |
| 1978 | 50 | #1,945 | 10 | #3,672 |
| 1977 | 70 | #1,541 | 8 | #4,277 |
| 1976 | 58 | #1,686 | 9 | #3,800 |
| 1975 | 79 | #1,353 | 19 | #2,307 |
| 1974 | 99 | #1,157 | 20 | #2,147 |
| 1973 | 105 | #1,090 | 11 | #3,065 |
| 1972 | 121 | #989 | 10 | #3,209 |
| 1971 | 144 | #909 | 18 | #2,227 |
| 1970 | 161 | #840 | 21 | #1,953 |
| 1969 | 142 | #882 | 13 | #2,453 |
| 1968 | 90 | #1,126 | 6 | #3,805 |
| 1967 | 64 | #1,377 | 6 | #3,658 |
| 1966 | 63 | #1,387 | 6 | #3,627 |
| 1965 | 44 | #1,698 | 8 | #3,045 |
| 1964 | 26 | #2,427 | — | — |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,562 | — | — |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,841 | — | — |
| 1961 | 22 | #2,627 | — | — |
| 1960 | 30 | #2,111 | — | — |
| 1959 | 25 | #2,302 | — | — |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,780 | — | — |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,062 | — | — |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,651 | — | — |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,864 | — | — |
| 1954 | 22 | #2,318 | — | — |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,315 | — | — |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,212 | — | — |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,721 | — | — |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,941 | — | — |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,438 | — | — |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,663 | — | — |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,887 | — | — |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,559 | — | — |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,711 | — | — |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,734 | — | — |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,837 | — | — |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,070 | — | — |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,806 | — | — |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,227 | — | — |
| 1934 | 15 | #2,109 | — | — |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,302 | — | — |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,892 | — | — |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,618 | — | — |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,746 | — | — |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,743 | — | — |
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).