Dion
Dion is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 191 births. Its best rank was 338th, in 1969.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1910.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 1970554 births
- Best rank
- #338in 1969
- Since 1929
- 20,002people given the name
The story in the numbers
18,758 boys have been named Dion in the United States since 1929, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1970, with 554 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1984, and the 1970s alone account for 22%. It has spent 53 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,244 girls have also been given it, 6.2% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Dion | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 6 | |
| 1930s | 174 | |
| 1940s | 201 | |
| 1950s | 575 | |
| 1960s | 3,245 | |
| 1970s | 4,152 | |
| 1980s | 2,591 | |
| 1990s | 3,242 | |
| 2000s | 1,973 | |
| 2010s | 1,519 | |
| 2020s | 1,080 |
In 1970, its biggest year
Dion was the 344th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1970 were Michael, James, David, John and Robert. See all of 1970.
Names that rose and fell with Dion
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jobypeak 1977
- Shanpeak 1969
- Destrypeak 1964
- Andrepeak 1970
- Demetriospeak 1974
- Keirpeak 1970
- Cedricpeak 1982
- Dawaynepeak 1977
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.