Dillinger

#9,117 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Dillinger has been given to 417 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #9,117 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 36 recorded.

Babies named Dillinger, 2025

1 in 414,000

Dillinger over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Dillinger?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,117
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dillinger sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dillinger. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dillingers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dillinger was born before 2012 — so the typical Dillinger is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
61.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
417
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 61.6% of all recorded uses (257).

Is Dillinger rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,972
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,530
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.38×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
22.2%
Peak was 2011 (36)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,123
2011

Where Dillinger is used

Across 1910–2025, Dillinger was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 506,022 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in —
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Dillinger has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dillinger by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,117
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,972
Best rank ever
#3,123
2011
Peak year
2011
36 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
417
Count in 2025
8

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