Dillion

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Dillion: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Dillion: Recorded since 1997, its highest recorded position is #241, and it was last ranked in 2015.

2registrars recorded it
13times a registrar ranked it
19years from first to last
#241highest recorded position
3groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1997–2015

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2859
1999	#2943
2001	#3134
2006	#3385
2007	#4333
2008	#3687
2009	#3744
2015	#4747

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 8 of the 19 years from 1997 to 2015.

In 2001: #409 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #3134 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1997–2015 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #2859 among boys in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1997–2011
Highest recorded position: #241 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 1999 (recorded 1997–2011).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2015
Most recently recorded at #4747 among boys in England and Wales, in 2015.
England and Wales · Boys

Dillion appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 8 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 27 births with the name.

Dillion across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Dillion's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2859 (1997)	#2859 (1997)	#4747 (2015)	8 of 19	27 (1997–2015)	4 (2006)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#337 (1997)	#241 (1999)	#730 (2011)	5 of 15	21 (1997–2011)	7 (1999)

Dillion by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Dillion in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	6	2 of 10	3
2000sbusiest	18	5 of 10	4
2010s	3	1 of 10	3

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 4 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Dillion appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1997 to 2015. Highest recorded position: #241 in Republic of Ireland in 1999.

Dillion's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3744	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3687	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#4333	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#3385	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#730	3	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	male	#409	3	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	male	#241	7	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	male	#324	4	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	male	#337	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1997 and 2015, ranked in 10 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #241, first reached in 1999.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 7 births, registered in Republic of Ireland in 1999.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 4 years.

Every registrar that records it began in the same year, 1997.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

3decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 3 decades →
4 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
5separate stretches the record falls into5 separate stretches →
4 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period4 to 9 years missing →
#4,747position in 2015, its most recent recorded year
0 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itWithin 2 years →
7births registered in its largest year, 1999Under 25 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Dilara · #853, 29y
Dillan · #242, 29y
Dillon · #86, 42y
Dilpreet · #1979, 21y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Blaire · #244, 14y
Ciarrai · #238, 13y
Mallaidh · #237, 11y
Cillin · #235, 11y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Arham · #241, 27y
Jordan-Lee · #241, 16y
Kaine · #241, 29y
Keely · #241, 26y

Dillion was ranked #241 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 1999. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Dillion and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Dillion without appearing here.

Dillion moved ahead of

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In 2007 they stood at #4333 and #3589 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #3687 and #4432.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1997 to 2015. Highest recorded position: #241 in Republic of Ireland in 1999. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Dillion

Dillion at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Dillion across 2 official records

Dillion by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Dillion appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Dillion

Dillion and the names beside it

Dillion moved ahead of

Dillion at a glance

Dillion across 2 official records

Dillion by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Dillion appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Dillion

Dillion and the names beside it

Dillion moved ahead of