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Dionysia

Girls' name

Dionysus + pertaining to

Dionysia has been given to 43 babies in the U.S. since 1925. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1975, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Dionysia, 2019

1 in 694,000

Dionysia over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dionysia: meaning, origin, and history

Dionysus + pertaining to

Ancient Greek and Latin

What Dionysia means

Dionysia means “Dionysus + pertaining to”, associated with Διόνῡσος and -ῐος.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Learned borrowing from Latin Dionȳsia, feminine of Dionȳsius, from Ancient Greek Δῐονῡ́σῐος (Dĭonū́sĭos), from Διόνῡσος (Diónūsos, “Dionysus”) + -ῐος (-ĭos, “pertaining to”). Doublet of Denise.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Dionysia (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Dionysia is used in English and Latin. Its origins include Ancient Greek and Latin.

Dionysia comes through Latin Dionȳsia and Ancient Greek Δῐονῡ́σῐος.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dionysius and Denise.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Dionysia is pronounced /ˌdaɪəˈnaɪsiə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 43 girls were recorded with the name Dionysia between 1925 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1975; its best national rank was #5,150 in 1925.

How common is Dionysia?

Dionysia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 694,000
5 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 336,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dionysia 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 2019 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 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dionysia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dionysias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dionysia was born before 1980 — so the typical Dionysia is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
25.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
34.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
38
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1970s — 25.6% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Dionysia 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1975 (6)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,150
1925

Dionysia around the world

Where Dionysia 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
    1953–2007
    #535
    in 2007

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

Dionysia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,150
1925
Peak year
1975
6 that year
First recorded
1925
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
43
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dionysia

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

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Sibling names for Dionysia

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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