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Dionna

#11,184 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Dionna has been given to 3,780 babies in the U.S. since 1951. In 2025 it ranked #11,184 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 163 recorded.

Babies named Dionna, 2025

1 in 414,000

Dionna over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dionna: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dionna means

Dionna is a given name.

The naming story behind Dionna

Wikidata records Dionna as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q119691932, 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, 3,775 girls were recorded with the name Dionna between 1951 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 163 in 1994; its best national rank was #1,099 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,008 in 2020 to #11,184 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,365 in 2015 to #11,184 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Dionna between 1989 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1989; its best national rank was #8,211 in 1989.

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 Dionna?

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 girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,184
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dionna sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 Dionna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dionnas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dionna was born before 1992 — so the typical Dionna is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
28.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
25.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,775
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1990s — 28.8% of all recorded uses (1,086).

Is Dionna 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
−4,176
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,819
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.9%
Peak was 1994 (163)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,099
1994

Spellings of Dionna

Dionna is not the most common spelling — Donna is, with 43.1% against Dionna's 0.20%.

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 Dionna is used

Across 1910–2025, Dionna was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 70,901 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Ohio1 in 25,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in 33,333
  3. 3Maryland1 in 33,333
  4. 4California1 in 50,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 50,000
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 50,000
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  8. 8District of Columbia1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Dionna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dionna around the world

Where Dionna 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.

  • South Australia
    1981–1981
    #616
    in 1981

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Dionna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,184
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,176
Best rank ever
#1,099
1994
Peak year
1994
163 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,775
Count in 2025
8

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,211
1989
Peak year
1989
5 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dionna

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

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Names with a curve like Dionna

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

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Sibling names for Dionna

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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