Dionysios
given name · Latin script
Meaning: pers. name. Mod
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dajəɲɪzioʊs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dionysios is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Greece than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- GRGreece≈1 in 6.9Kas Dionisis
- SESweden1 in 200K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Dionysios itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Greece (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 124 (measured from records)
- 1 in 200K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 named Dionisis, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Dionisios in US United States, SE Sweden, Διονυσιος in GR Greece and Dionysius in NL Netherlands.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
pers. name. Mod. Greek
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dionysios counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GR Greece | #265 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | 178 | Διονυσιος | 124 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,284as Dionysius | 1 in 13K | 1.2K | Dionysius | 26 |
| CY Cyprus | #645 | 305as Διονυσης | 1 in 4.2K | 305 | Dionysios | 22 |
| US United States | — | 267 | 1 in 1.2M | 265 | Dionisios | 108 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 502K | listed | Dionysios | 55 |
| SE Sweden | — | 51 | 1 in 200K | 51 | Dionisios | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 212K | — | Dionysios | 12 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); the de-munich-vornamen register; CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Dionysios is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Se Dennis.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Latin, accusative plural of Dionȳsius
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Dionysius of Halicarnassusb. 60ITnot in their usual name1st-century BC Greek historian and teacher
- Dionysius the Areopagiteb. 100GRnot in their usual nameGreek bishop and saint
- Dionysius Periegetesb. 100EGnot in their usual name2nd century AD Greek travel writer
- Dionysius Thraxb. 170EGnot in their usual nameancient Greek grammarian
- Pope Dionysius of Alexandriab. 190EGnot in their usual nameHead of the Church in Alexandria from 248 to 264
- Dionysius II of Syracuseb. 397ITnot in their usual nameSicilian tyrant
- Dionysius I of Syracuseb. 430ITnot in their usual nameGreek tyrant of Syracuse (c. 432 – 367 BC)
- Dionysius Exiguusb. 475ITnot in their usual nameByzantine saint
- Dionysius the Phocaeanb. 550not in their usual nameearly 5th century BC Phocaean Greek admiral
- Dionysios Solomosb. 1798GRGreek poet (1798–1857)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 265 | #31,866 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 51 | #13,507 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 38 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 35 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 34 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 34 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 32 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 29 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 26 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 23 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 20 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 16 | #13,459 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Dionysios come from?
- pers. name. Mod. Greek Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- What are other forms of the name Dionysios?
- In the etymology graph, Dennis, Denis and Dionisio are forms of the same name in other languages; Dion is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Dionysios?
- A machine transcription gives /dajəɲɪzioʊs/ (IPA) for Greek.
- Is Dionysios a male or female name?
- Dionysios is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Dionysios mean?
- Recorded meaning: pers. name. Mod.
- In which country does Dionysios have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Dionisis in Greece, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Dionysios most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dionysios is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 200 thousand people — even though Greece holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dionysios?
- In the United States, the national register counted 267 people named Dionysios in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Dionysios compared with other names?
- In Greece, Dionysios is the 265th most common given name of 24,546 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dionysios?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dionysiosThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dionysios” — the 265th most common given name in Greece. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.