How rare is the name Dionne?

9,523 people in the United States have the first name Dionne, about 1 in 31,716. It ranks #2,545 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

DIONNE

#2,545

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
9,523
About
1 in 31,716
This common or more
80.1%
Who bears it

Of the 9,523 people named Dionne, 68.7% reported their origin as Black, 19.2% as White and 5.4% as Hispanic or Latino. 96.2% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Dionne peaked in 1970, when 850 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19312025
Peak year
1970
Births that year
850
In 2025*
21 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 10,305 babies have been given the name since 1931. 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.

Dionne by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #836. The largest share of babies named Dionne, 67.1%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1930s#5,83265
1940s#5,49685
1950s#3,255288
1960s#1,0882,576
1970s#8364,297
1980s#1,6471,601
1990s#3,462684
2000s#6,919344
2010s#9,487235
2020s#9,763130
Silent Generation 1928–451.1%
Baby boom 1946–645.5%
Generation X 1965–8067.1%
Millennials 1981–9617.6%
Generation Z 1997–126.3%
2013 and later2.5%

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 Dionne is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Dionne has been most common in District of Columbia (7.5×), Louisiana (5.9×), and Maryland (2.2×), and least common in Kentucky (0.28×).

7,374 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 Dionne

#2,543 Ming · 9,534#2,544 Santana · 9,527#2,546 Ayana · 9,522#2,547 Art · 9,521

Spelled almost the same

4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Dionne, most common first.

#664 Dianne · 79,711#5,501 Dionna · 3,109#6,152 Dione · 2,638#52,462 Dionn · 107

Also a last name

As a last name, Dionne ranks #5,257 of 156,621, with 6,408 people. See Dionne as a last name

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