How popular is the name Dionne?

Dionne ranks 1,157th among girls' names in US records, with 14,011 births since 1913. Over the past decade it accounts for 235.

Is Dionne a unisex name?

No. Dionne is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1970, when 1,048 children were given the name. It has been in use for 112 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Dione, Deon, Deion. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#1,157 of girl names

Pronounced D IY1 AA0 N (ARPABET)

Dionne is a girls' name, and first appears in 1913. It has been given to 14,011 children — the 1,157th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 235 births across the past decade, against a peak of 1,048 in a single year. That peak was in 1970.

Three other spellings are counted in that total — Dione, Deon and Deion — because they are pronounced identically.

19701,048

These spellings sound identical to Dionne and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Dionne?: Dionne ranks 1,157th among girls' names in US records, with 14,011 births since 1913. Over the past decade it accounts for 235.
Is Dionne a unisex name?: No. Dionne is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Dionne most popular?: 1970, when 1,048 children were given the name. It has been in use for 112 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Dionne spelled?: Dione, Deon, Deion. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.