Given name & surname · also Punjabi
Dhillon
Dhillon is a surname from Punjabi, ultimately from Prakrit.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Dhillon comes from Punjabi, and ultimately from Prakrit.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Punjabi ਢਿੱਲੋਂ, from Punjabi ਢਿੱਲ, from Prakrit 𑀠𑀺𑀮𑁆𑀮.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1999. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dhillon through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 61
- 61 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2004
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 9 in 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 2004. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 7,200 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Dhillon’s family of names
In English usage, Dhillon as a surname was borrowed from the Punjabi form ਢਿੱਲੋਂ.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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