Dion

Dion is the 4,417th most common surname in the United States, shared by 7,787 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 38,400.

By the numbers

People: 7,787
Rank: 4,417th
How common: 1 in 38,400
Per 100,000: 2.6

Where the name comes from

Origin French

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.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Dion described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 89.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Dion

Céline Dion (born 1968)French Canadian singer
Stéphane Dion (born 1955)Canadian politician
Pascal Dion (born 1994)Canadian short track speed skater
Henri de Dion (1828–1878)French engineer
Renaud Dion (born 1978)road bicycle racer

People named Dion with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Dion

Also a first name

Dion has been given to 20,164 American babies as a first name since 1929, peaking in 1970. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.