Dion
About 20,164 American babies have been named Dion since 1929, most of them around 1970. In 2025 it ranked 1,267th. About 18,000 Dions are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 39.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Dion boys named Dion
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 20,164
- Estimated living today
- 18,000
- Median age today
- 39
- Peak year
- 1970
- Best rank
- 343rd
- Rank in 2025
- 1,267th
- First recorded
- 1929
- Girls / boys
- 1,250 / 18,914
How old the living Dions are
born that year still alive today
Of the 20,164 babies given the name since 1929, about 18,000 are alive — 91 in every hundred. Roughly 3,300 of them are children and 760 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1986 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Ancient Greek
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Δίων. Also a medieval English and French diminutive of Dionysius (Dennis).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Dions
- Dion Dublin (born 1969)English television presenter and former footballer
- Dion Fortune (1890–1946)British occultist, ceremonial magician, and writer
- Dion Waiters (born 1991)American basketball player
- Dion Cooper (born 1993)Dutch singer
- Dion Cools (born 1996)Belgian-Malaysian association football player
- Dion Beebe (born 1968)Australian cinematographer
- Dion Malone (born 1989)Surinamese footballer
- Dion DiMucci (born 1939)American singer
People named Dion with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Dion is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Dion is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (4.5×), Michigan (2.3×), Maryland (2.2×), New Mexico (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1970
The most popular boys’ names the year Dion peaked:
Dion elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Dion | 2,007 | 271st |
| New Zealand boys | Dion | 1,283 | 50th |
| Switzerland boys | Dion | 1,039 | 122nd |
| Italy boys | Dion | 444 | — |
| England and Wales girls | Dion | 329 | 618th |
| Ireland boys | Dion | 275 | 144th |
| Belgium boys | Dion | 222 | 607th |
| France boys | Dion | 150 | 2,399th |
| Scotland girls | Dion | 52 | 289th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Dion | 29 | 189th |
| Scotland boys | Dion | 22 | 325th |
| Ireland girls | Dion | 14 | 425th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Dion | 3 | 343rd |
| Poland boys | Dion | 2 birth registrations | 732nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Dion: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Dion | 897 | 0.072% | 99th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Dion | 130 | 0.030% | 196th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Dion | 12 | 0.018% | 127th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Dion is most concentrated in Aargau, where 0.11% of children were given it – 149 of them.
Dion: rank by region
In 2025, Dion was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Dion | 806 | 6 |
In 2022, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Dion appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (195th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Dion by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 23 | 295th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Dion among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Dion | 4,423 | 5,537 |
| the Netherlands girls | Dion | 204 | 276 |
| Finland boys | Dion | 76 | 87 |
| Finland girls | Dion | — | 5 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Dion against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.