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Diondre vs Dionne

American parents have registered 10,305 Dionnes since 1880, against 1,441 Diondres. Dionne is still ahead, with 21 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Diondre against Dionne, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Diondre Dionne

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

Of the 94 years in which either name was published, Dionne for 80 years and Diondre for 14 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.

8 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Diondre Dionne
Total US births 1,44110,305
Most in one year 75850
Babies in 2025 721
Estimated living today 1,4009,600
Median age today 2652
Peak year 19961970
Best rank 1,400th boys321st girls
Rank in 2025 9,714th6,838th
First recorded 19691931
Girls / boys 0 / 1,4419,860 / 445

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 Dionnes alive today are over 52; half the Diondres are over 26. That is 26 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Diondre Dionne
England and Wales 3748

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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