The story in the numbers

64,964 boys have been named Dillon in the United States since 1892, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1992, with 5,063 births — 0.25% of all boys recorded that year.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 397 → 868).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1997, and the 1990s alone account for 50%. It has spent 47 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 2 of them in the top 100.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,004 girls have also been given it, 1.5% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

By decade

Decade

boys named Dillon

127

169

123

483

4,502

32,662

17,707

7,167

1,765

In 1992, its biggest year

Dillon was the 73rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1992 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Andrew. See all of 1992.

Names that rose and fell with Dillon

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.