Dionne
Dionne reached its high-water mark in 1970 at number 321, and has been recorded 10,305 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 6,838th. About 9,600 Dionnes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 52.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Dionne boys named Dionne
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 10,305
- Estimated living today
- 9,600
- Median age today
- 52
- Peak year
- 1970
- Best rank
- 321st
- Rank in 2025
- 6,838th
- First recorded
- 1931
- Girls / boys
- 9,860 / 445
How old the living Dionnes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 10,305 babies given the name since 1931, about 9,600 are alive — 93 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1973 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
From French Dionne.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Dionnes
- Dionne Warwick (born 1940)American singer
- Dionne Bromfield (born 1996)British singer
- Dionne Farris (born 1969)American R&B singer
People named Dionne with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Dionne is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Dionne is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (7.5×), Louisiana (5.9×), Maryland (2.2×), Ohio (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1970
The most popular girls’ names the year Dionne peaked:
Dionne elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland girls | Dionne | 813 | 125th |
| England and Wales girls | Dionne | 748 | 375th |
| Ireland girls | Dionne | 106 | 279th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Dionne | 17 | 284th |
| France girls | Dionne | 5 | 7,330th |
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.
Dionne 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 girls | Dionne | 1,610 | 2,094 |
| the Netherlands boys | Dionne | — | 19 |
| Finland girls | Dionne | 5 | 10 |
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
Dionne 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.