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Diondra vs Dionna

American parents have registered 3,780 Dionnas since 1880, against 693 Diondras. Dionna is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Diondra against Dionna, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Diondra Dionna

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Dionna has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1951 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1990, when Diondra had 47 and Dionna had 85.

Side by side

  Diondra Dionna
Total US births 6933,780
Most in one year 47163
Babies in 2025 under 58
Estimated living today 6703,700
Median age today 3533
Peak year 19851994
Best rank 2,283rd girls1,100th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked10,917th
First recorded 19671951
Girls / boys 688 / 53,775 / 5

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Diondras alive today are over 35; half the Dionnas are over 33. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Diondra and Dionna.