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How popular is “Dion” in the USA?

Number of people named “Dion” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Dion” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Dion” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Dion” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Dion” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Dion” by birth year

This chart shows how “Dion” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1929 6 0.000002737 6 -100%
1930 5 0.000002249 5 -100%
1931 8 0.000003802 8 -100%
1932 12 0.000005684 12 -100%
1933 12 0.000006002 12 -100%
1934 16 0.000007704 16 -100%
1935 20 0.00000957 6 14 -40%
1936 7 0.000003369 7 -100%
1937 11 0.000005163 11 -100%
1938 50 0.000022598 50 -100%
1939 39 0.0000177 39 -100%
1940 13 0.000005646 13 -100%
1941 23 0.00000944 23 -100%
1942 21 0.000007687 6 15 -43%
1943 18 0.000006377 18 -100%
1944 31 0.000011524 5 26 -68%
1945 21 0.000007916 21 -100%
1946 25 0.000007824 25 -100%
1947 28 0.000007773 28 -100%
1948 16 0.000004634 16 -100%
1949 21 0.000006026 5 16 -52%
1950 20 0.000005709 20 -100%
1951 23 0.000006244 23 -100%
1952 23 0.000006056 5 18 -57%
1953 36 0.000009342 10 26 -44%
1954 39 0.000009797 12 27 -38%
1955 34 0.000008468 6 28 -65%
1956 33 0.000008004 10 23 -39%
1957 75 0.000017848 9 66 -76%
1958 229 0.000055396 12 217 -90%
1959 138 0.000033189 11 127 -84%
1960 201 0.000048389 12 189 -88%
1961 252 0.000060836 19 233 -85%
1962 283 0.00007013 18 265 -87%
1963 331 0.000083624 18 313 -89%
1964 291 0.000074853 18 273 -88%
1965 309 0.000085231 25 284 -84%
1966 356 0.000102427 26 330 -85%
1967 392 0.000115467 32 360 -84%
1968 502 0.00014859 37 465 -85%
1969 575 0.000165452 42 533 -85%
1970 607 0.000168307 53 554 -83%
1971 543 0.0001582 46 497 -83%
1972 446 0.000141903 30 416 -87%
1973 432 0.000143194 21 411 -90%
1974 428 0.00014079 32 396 -85%
1975 498 0.000164934 43 455 -83%
1976 404 0.000133144 27 377 -87%
1977 398 0.000125295 27 371 -86%
1978 386 0.000121618 22 364 -89%
1979 336 0.000100992 25 311 -85%
1980 291 0.000084482 19 272 -87%
1981 287 0.000082963 27 260 -81%
1982 239 0.000068131 19 220 -84%
1983 265 0.000076516 20 245 -85%
1984 271 0.000077678 18 253 -87%
1985 267 0.000074809 16 251 -88%
1986 234 0.000065784 12 222 -90%
1987 282 0.000078211 13 269 -91%
1988 274 0.000074153 16 258 -88%
1989 362 0.000094162 21 341 -88%
1990 368 0.000093106 17 351 -91%
1991 298 0.000076503 298 -100%
1992 377 0.000098145 11 366 -94%
1993 396 0.000105032 9 387 -95%
1994 377 0.000101408 20 357 -89%
1995 335 0.000091476 335 -100%
1996 340 0.000093222 11 329 -94%
1997 304 0.000083845 19 285 -88%
1998 270 0.000073405 13 257 -90%
1999 291 0.000078779 14 277 -90%
2000 266 0.000070372 19 247 -86%
2001 234 0.00006251 13 221 -89%
2002 211 0.000056443 11 200 -90%
2003 207 0.00005444 6 201 -94%
2004 222 0.000058101 13 209 -88%
2005 195 0.000050717 15 180 -85%
2006 193 0.000048784 7 186 -93%
2007 200 0.000050029 7 193 -93%
2008 173 0.000044013 6 167 -93%
2009 182 0.000047642 13 169 -86%
2010 195 0.000052763 15 180 -85%
2011 158 0.000043195 16 142 -80%
2012 167 0.000045661 8 159 -90%
2013 168 0.000046082 8 160 -90%
2014 180 0.000048565 16 164 -82%
2015 148 0.00003999 9 139 -88%
2016 156 0.000042522 13 143 -83%
2017 155 0.000043342 10 145 -87%
2018 139 0.000039535 10 129 -86%
2019 169 0.00004869 11 158 -87%
2020 245 0.000073341 14 231 -89%
2021 214 0.000063165 14 200 -87%
2022 271 0.000080103 14 257 -90%
2023 201 0.000060703 201 -100%
2024 202 0.000060688 11 191 -89%

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