Dione

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Dione is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Mother of Aphrodite, and possibly the same as the goddess Rhea.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 8.5K◐
  • NLNetherlands1 in 40K
  • AUAustralia1 in 74K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈28K ●

across 10 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
257 ●

52K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 8.5K ◐

Brazil

Spellings & scripts●

DioneLatin · Portuguese●387K records
ΔιωνηGreek · Greek●2 records

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Mother of Aphrodite, and possibly the same as the goddess Rhea.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Dione is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#89024,821△9.9K rec.1 in 8.5K30KDione121
US United States—2,18835K rec.1 in 152K2.2KDione257
GB United Kingdom—1,7251.5K rec.—3Dione74
AU Australia—1,5561.4K rec.—3Dione83
PH Philippines—1,145932 rec.——Dione27
CA Canada—647674 rec.—1Dione54
NL Netherlands—435△137 rec.1 in 40K435Dione16
IT Italy—213236 rec.—1Dione14
ID Indonesia—16282 rec.—listedDione33
NZ New Zealand—144125 rec.—10Dione31
DE Germany—111129 rec.——Dione32
SG Singapore—105118 rec.——Dione27

Roughly 25K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 8.5K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese387K82%
  • English67K14%
  • Spanish7K1%
  • 3.9K1%
  • French1.9K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese386,99482%
English67,39114%
Spanish6,9971%
3,9211%
French1,9451%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Dione is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name6.9K records spelled Dione8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Senegal, Philippines

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Dioni, Dioné, Dïone, Dionę, Dionè

  • a separate given name4.4K records spelled Dione4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written Diōnē, Dionê, Dioné

  • Swahili given name406 records spelled Dione3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Cameroon, South Africa

    Also written Dioné

  • Hindi given name313 records spelled Dione3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Philippines, India

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Dionê

59 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Dione is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, mother of Aphrodite; mother of Niobe

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, & Pelops; satellite of Saturn

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, Greek, lover of wine; from Dionysus.

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In Polish, Dione (moon in Jupiter system, Solar System; The fourth largest moon of Saturn)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Welsh, Dione (the mother of Aphrodite)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05010015020019401960198020002020161 · 1970

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Dione in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1929–2025
Yearrecords
19295
19307
193111
193218
193313
193415
19358
19366
19416
19435
19445
19455
19466
19476
19489
194910
195013
195115
19528
195321
195422
195516
195619
195715
195818
195925
196030
196122
196212
196323
196426
196544
196663
196764
196890
1969142
1970161
1971144
1972121
1973105
197499
197579
197658
197770
197850
197961
198066
198170
198250
198334
198432
198540
198629
198721
198826
198914
199014
199119
199213
199310
199413
199521
199616
199713
199817
199914
200010
200121
20028
20035
20046
20057
200611
20076
20089
20098
20106
20118
20128
20139
20145
20156
20166
201712
20187
20198
20206
20215
20229
20237
20256

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 91 years between 1929–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Dione Lucas, b. 1909Dione Digby, Lady Digby, b. 1934Dee Dee Sharp, b. 1945Dione Grimston, Countess of Verulam, b. 1954Dione de Graaff, b. 1969Dione Taylor, b. 1975Dione Rissios, b. 1990Dione Voskamp, b. 1997Dione Housheer, b. 1999

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 67 sources across 36 countries.

Official registers attesting Dione
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—30K#1,093
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202225K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—15K#919
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—10K#919
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.2K#6,152
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020450#6,152
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—435#2,219
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—392#9,726
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—392#9,705
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—316#4,216
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020198#98,131
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010172#104,156

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 382 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Dione?
We estimate roughly 28 thousand people bear Dione (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Dione have the most bearers?
We estimate about 25 thousand people bear Dione in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled dione.
Where is Dione most common?
Dione is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.5 thousand people carrying it.
How common is Dione compared with other names?
In Brazil, Dione is the 890th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.
Is Dione a male or female name?
Dione is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What does the name Dione mean?
Recorded meaning: Mother of Aphrodite, and possibly the same as the goddess Rhea.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dione” — the 890th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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