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Dionicio

#6,546 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Dionicio has been given to 2,094 babies in the U.S. since 1882. In 2025 it ranked #6,546 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1976, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Dionicio, 2025

1 in 255,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dionicio: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dionicio means

Dionicio is a given name.

The naming story behind Dionicio

Wikidata records Dionicio as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q65073912, 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, 2,094 boys were recorded with the name Dionicio between 1882 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 1976; its best national rank was #966 in 1887.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,048 in 2020 to #6,546 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,802 in 2015 to #6,546 in 2025.

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 Dionicio?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,546
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dionicio 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dionicio. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dionicios were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dionicio was born before 1975 — so the typical Dionicio is around 50 today.

Median birth year
1975
About 50 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
12.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,501
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 12.0% of all recorded uses (251).

Is Dionicio 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
+2,667
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−498
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−744
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.87×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
39.4%
Peak was 1976 (33)
Years since peak
49
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#966
1887

Spellings of Dionicio

Dionicio is the most-used spelling, taking 63.7% of the 3,288 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Dionicio is used

Across 1910–2025, Dionicio was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 26,409 across all states with data. It was least common in New Mexico (1 in 100,000).

17 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 14,286
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3New Mexico1 in 100,000

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

Notable people named Dionicio

People whose public names include Dionicio, 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.

Dionicio by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,546
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 498
Best rank ever
#966
1887
Peak year
1976
33 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,094
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Dionicio

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

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Names with a curve like Dionicio

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

DelfinoFelicianoLauroBlasConradoCecilioFidencioRosalioCandidoModestoAmadorAnselmo

Sibling names for Dionicio

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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