Dionne

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Dionne: Recorded since 1971, it reached #279 in 1999, and it stood at #4,645 in 2022.

3registrars recorded it
50times a registrar ranked it
52years from first to last
#279highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2022

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#375
1997	#374
1998	#374
1999	#529
2000	#497
2001	#519
2002	#722
2003	#619
2004	#840
2005	#790
2006	#855
2007	#1296
2008	#1391
2009	#1752
2010	#1901
2011	#1489
2012	#2717
2013	#2649
2014	#4003
2015	#4736
2017	#5765
2018	#5666
2020	#5493
2022	#4645

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 · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 21 of the 38 years from 1971 to 2008.

In 2008: #750 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1391 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1971–2022 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1971
First recorded at #466 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1971 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1971–2008
Highest recorded position: #279 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1999 (recorded 1971–2008).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2022
Most recently recorded at #4645 among girls in England and Wales, in 2022.
England and Wales · Girls

Dionne appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 24 ranked years and 745 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1971.

Dionne across 3 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.

Dionne'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
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#466 (1971)	#279 (1999)	#750 (2008)	21 of 38	106 (1971–2008)	9 (1999)
England and Wales · Girls	#375 (1996)	#374 (1997)	#4645 (2022)	24 of 27	745 (1996–2022)	89 (1996)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#358 (1997)	#284 (2003)	#413 (2007)	5 of 11	17 (1997–2007)	4 (2001)

Dionne by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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 Dionne in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	315	4 of 10	79
2000sbusiest	356	10 of 10	36
2010s	67	8 of 10	8
2020s	7	2 of 10	4

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 36 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1998 and 1999, when recorded births fell by 32, from 86 to 54.

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

Dionne 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 3 regions, from 1971 to 2022. Highest recorded position: #279 in Republic of Ireland in 1999.

Dionne'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
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4736	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4003	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2649	9	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2717	9	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1489	20	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1901	14	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1752	15	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1391	20	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1296	21	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#855	35	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#790	36	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#840	32	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#619	47	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#722	36	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#519	55	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#497	59	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#529	54	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#374	86	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#374	86	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#375	89	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#413	3	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	female	#284	4	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	female	#293	4	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	female	#344	3	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	female	#358	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#576	4	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#512	4	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#352	7	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#279	9	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	female	#319	7	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#440	5	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	female	#471	4	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	female	#352	7	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	3	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#457	4	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	female	#446	4	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	female	#445	4	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	female	#334	8	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#421	5	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	female	#438	5	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#386	6	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#497	3	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	female	#343	7	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	female	#508	3	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#466	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
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 3 registrars between 1971 and 2022, ranked in 37 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #279, first reached in 1999.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 89 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

Its record falls into 11 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 4 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 26 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

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.

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.

Dion · #50, 46y
Diona · #3725, 10y
Dior · #1153, 27y
Diora · #1469, 14y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Clyde · #279, 33y
Hala · #275, 35y
Salman · #275, 37y
Letitia · #284, 37y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Dalton · #279, 31y
Diego · #279, 45y
Kiaran · #279, 17y
Bosco · #280, 13y

Dionne was ranked #279 in Republic of Ireland · Girls 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.

Dionne 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 Dionne without appearing here.

Dionne moved ahead of

Belinda Compare
In 1997 they stood at #440 and #363 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1998 that had become #319 and #498.
Janice Compare
In 1997 they stood at #440 and #440 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1998 that had become #319 and #498.
Vicki Compare
In 1997 they stood at #471 and #471 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1998 that had become #319 and #498.
Dianne Compare
In 1994 they stood at #523 and #456 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1995 that had become #352 and #516.

Moved ahead of Dionne

Francis Compare
In 2016 they stood at #2649 and #4739 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #5765 and #2502.
Malin Compare
In 2016 they stood at #2649 and #4739 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #5765 and #2706.
Rory Compare
In 2016 they stood at #4736 and #5730 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #5765 and #2706.
Ellinor Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2717 and #5876 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #5493 and #2843.

Moved the opposite way to Dionne

Alexandra Compare
Between 1971 and 2008 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Dionne went from #466 to #750 while Alexandra went from #257 to #92.
Amy Compare
Between 1971 and 2008 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Dionne went from #466 to #750 while Amy went from #277 to #16.
Anna Compare
Between 1971 and 2008 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Dionne went from #466 to #750 while Anna went from #52 to #20.
Annie Compare
Between 1971 and 2008 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Dionne went from #466 to #750 while Annie went from #269 to #119.

Moved the same way as Dionne

Audrey Compare
Between 1971 and 2008 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Dionne went from #466 to #750 and Audrey from #48 to #469.
Deirdre Compare
Between 1971 and 2008 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Dionne went from #466 to #750 and Deirdre from #10 to #403.
Eileen Compare
Between 1971 and 2008 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Dionne went from #466 to #750 and Eileen from #31 to #230.
Elaine Compare
Between 1971 and 2008 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Dionne went from #466 to #750 and Elaine from #16 to #281.

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 3 regions, from 1971 to 2022. Highest recorded position: #279 in Republic of Ireland in 1999. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Dionne

Dionne at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Dionne across 3 official records

Dionne by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Dionne appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Dionne

Dionne and the names beside it

Dionne moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Dionne

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Moved the same way as Dionne

Dionne at a glance

Dionne across 3 official records

Dionne by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Dionne appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Dionne

Dionne and the names beside it

Dionne moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Dionne

Moved the opposite way to Dionne

Moved the same way as Dionne