Given name & surname
Dionysios
Dionysios is used as a given name and a surname.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Dionysios is a variant of Dionysus. An origin associated with Dionysus is Greek.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1972. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Dionysios is a variant of Dionysus. The history of Dionysus gives this family its wider story. In mythological stories, Dionysus is associated with the god of wine and revelry.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Dionysios through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 64
- 64 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2003
- 9 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 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 267 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.
Dionysios’s family of names
Dionysios has a related form in Dionysus. In Greek usage, Dionysios as a surname is a transliteration of Διονυσίος.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 18
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Dionysios
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus1st-century BC Greek historian and teacher59 BC–6 BC
- Dionysius ExiguusByzantine saint475–544
- Pseudo-Dionysius the AreopagiteGreek philosopher500–600
- Dionysius the AreopagiteGreek bishop and saint100–100
- Dionysius I of SyracuseGreek tyrant of Syracuse (c. 432 – 367 BC)430 BC–366 BC
- Dionysius Thraxancient Greek grammarian169 BC–89 BC
- Dionysios SolomosGreek poet (1798–1857)
- Dionysius of AlexandriaHead of the Church in Alexandria from 248 to 264190–264
- Dionysius II of SyracuseSicilian tyrant396 BC–342 BC
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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