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Dillion

#5,444 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Dillion has been given to 3,661 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #5,444 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1992, with 354 recorded.

Babies named Dillion, 2025

1 in 195,000

Dillion over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dillion: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dillion means

Dillion is a given name.

The naming story behind Dillion

Wikidata records Dillion as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q37505209, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,655 boys were recorded with the name Dillion between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 354 in 1992; its best national rank was #539 in 1992.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,944 in 2020 to #5,444 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,431 in 2015 to #5,444 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 girls were recorded with the name Dillion between 2023 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2023; its best national rank was #13,886 in 2023.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Dillion?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,444
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dillion 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dillion. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dillions were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dillion was born before 1997 — so the typical Dillion is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
54.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
36.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,655
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 54.7% of all recorded uses (2,001).

Is Dillion 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
−158
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,500
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,013
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.77×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.8%
Peak was 1992 (354)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#539
1992

Spellings of Dillion

Dillion is not the most common spelling — Dillon is, with 58.9% against Dillion's 3.3%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Dillion is used

Across 1910–2025, Dillion was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 71,877 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 25,000
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 25,000
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 25,000
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 25,000
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 25,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 33,333
  7. 7Florida1 in 50,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 50,000

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. Dillion has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dillion around the world

Where Dillion ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2015
    #4,747
    in 2015
  • Ireland
    1997–2011
    #730
    in 2011
  • Canada
    1991–2000
    #2,026
    in 2000
  • South Australia
    1997–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Dillion

People whose public names include Dillion, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Dillion by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,444
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,500
Best rank ever
#539
1992
Peak year
1992
354 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,655
Count in 2025
17

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,886
2023
Peak year
2023
6 that year
First recorded
2023
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dillion

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Dillion

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Dillion, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DevontaDavonteLadariusDequanTaylerTreNajeeDakotahJavonteDylonDevontaeDemonte

Sibling names for Dillion

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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