Meaning and history
Greek name meaning roughly "divine," formed as the feminine of Zeus's genitive form Dios. In Homer's Iliad, Dione is named as the mother of Aphrodite by Zeus, though other traditions give the goddess a different parentage.
20062006: 11 births, rank #6,904
2007: 5 births, rank #12,367
2008: 8 births, rank #9,019
2009: 8 births, rank #8,985
2010: 6 births, rank #10,766
20112011: 8 births, rank #8,767
2012: 7 births, rank #9,709
2013: 9 births, rank #8,118
2014: no US SSA record for this spelling
2015: no US SSA record for this spelling
20162016: 6 births, rank #10,744
2017: 5 births, rank #12,246
2018: no US SSA record for this spelling
2019: 8 births, rank #8,889
2020: 6 births, rank #10,605
20212021: no US SSA record for this spelling
2022: no US SSA record for this spelling
2023: no US SSA record for this spelling
2024: no US SSA record for this spelling
20252025: 6 births, rank #10,695
Dione moved from #909 to #989 for girls between 1971 and 1972. Its highest annual birth count came in 1970, with 161 births.