Given name
Dionisia
Dionisia is a feminine given name. It is used in Spanish and Italian.
Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Dionisia isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dionisia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 234
- 0 boys · 234 girls
- Most popular year
- 1974
- 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 girls is 6 in 2012. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,130 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Dionisia’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Dionisia has a conventional equivalent in the French form Denise. In Spanish usage, Dionisia has a conventional equivalent in the French form Denisa. In Spanish usage, Dionisia can be written in the Roman alphabet as ดีโอนีเซีย̂.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Dionisia has relatives in 3 languages.
3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 5
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Dionisia
- Nísia FlorestaBrazilian writer (1810–1885)
- Dionisia GarcíaSpanish writerborn 1929
- Dionisia Manzanero SalasMember of Las Trece Rosas1919–1939
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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