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Dionicio vs Dionna

American parents have registered 3,780 Dionnas since 1880, against 2,094 Dionicios. But in 2025 it was Dionicio that was commoner, 13 babies to 8.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dionicio against Dionna, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dionicio Dionna

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 123 years in which either name was published, Dionicio for 66 years and Dionna for 57 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Dionicio Dionna
Total US births 2,0943,780
Most in one year 33163
Babies in 2025 138
Estimated living today 1,5003,700
Median age today 3733
Peak year 19761994
Best rank 1,608th boys1,100th girls
Rank in 2025 6,446th10,917th
First recorded 18821951
Girls / boys 0 / 2,0943,775 / 5

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Dionicios alive today are over 37; half the Dionnas are over 33. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Dionicio and Dionna.