first name
DION
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 14,902 people named Dion, 52% reported their origin as Black, 27.3% as White and 9.1% as Hispanic or Latino. 92.4% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Dion peaked in 1970, when 607 babies got the name.
At least 20,164 babies have been given the name since 1929. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Dion by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #820. The largest share of babies named Dion, 34.2%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Dion is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Dion has been most common in District of Columbia (4.5×), Michigan (2.3×), and Maryland (2.2×), and least common in Kansas (0.19×).
15,182 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Dion
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Dion, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Dion ranks #4,417 of 156,621, with 7,787 people. See Dion as a last name
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