Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Greek.
The story
In mythological stories, Dionysus is associated with the god of wine and revelry.
Dionysus through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 99
- 99 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2022
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #7,808 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +77%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 7,808 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 122 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.
Dionysus’s family of names
Dionysus has a related form in Dionisio. Dionysus has a related form in Dionis. Dionysus has a related form in Dionysios.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 13
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Dionisiovariant
- Dionisvariant
- Dionysiusvariant
- Dionysiosvariant
- Deonisusvariant
- Deonisisvariant
- Deonysusvariant
- Deonysisvariant
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Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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