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Dionysios

Boys' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Dionysios has been given to 64 babies in the U.S. since 1972. 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 2003, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Dionysios, 2022

1 in 677,000

Dionysios over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dionysios: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dionysios means

Dionysios is a given name.

The naming story behind Dionysios

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Dionysios in its glossary. The entry labels it masculine and points to printed page(s) 70.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Gr. of Dionysos”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Dionysios, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 64 boys were recorded with the name Dionysios between 1972 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2003; its best national rank was #5,163 in 1972.

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 Dionysios?

Dionysios had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 349,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dionysios 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dionysios. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dionysioss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dionysios was born before 2006 — so the typical Dionysios is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
39.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
64
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 39.1% of all recorded uses (25).

Is Dionysios 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 2003 (9)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,163
1972

Spellings of Dionysios

Dionysios is not the most common spelling — Dionisio is, with 94.9% against Dionysios's 5.1%.

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.

Dionysios around the world

Where Dionysios 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.

  • Canada
    2020–2020
    #2,570
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1969–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Dionysios by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,163
1972
Peak year
2003
9 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
64
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dionysios

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

DionisiosDionysusDionysiusDiovanniNektariosMakariosDiogenesDionelDemitriosDiomedesEfthimiosJuandediosEfstathiosStamatiosVassiliosDiontayDiontreDionisioDiomarFotiosDiontaeSteliosDionisDionne

Sibling names for Dionysios

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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