Dione
Recorded 1929–2025 · United States
Dione was most popular in 1970, when 182 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,361 that year. In 2025 it ranked #22,044, with 6 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,946 people named Dione.
Dione over time
How old is the name Dione?
Dione first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1929, which makes it about 96 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 91 of the 97 years since.
How many people are named Dione?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,946 American births named Dione between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,680 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Dione in 2025?
6 American babies were named Dione in 2025, ranking #22,044 that year.
Is Dione getting more or less popular?
Dione is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 7 births a year across 2021–2025 against 9 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Dione a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Dione is mostly a girl’s name — 80.5% of the 2,946 Americans given it were girls and 19.5% were boys. It changed hands: since 2001 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that. In births since 2016 it is 56% girls and 44% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Dione?
Roughly 2,680 Americans named Dione are alive today — 91% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 52 years old, and half are between 41 and 57.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Dione is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org