Entry № 2559 · Greek origin

Dione Dione — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ dee-OH-neh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Titaness mother of Aphrodite (Iliad 5)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "titaness mother of aphrodite (iliad 5)".

Dione is from the Greek Διώνη (Diōnē — divine, goddess) — feminine of Zeus / Dios (god). Dione is one of the Greek feminine names — central to traditional Greek mythological heritage.

Titaness mother of Aphrodite (Greek).

The name in its native script.

Διώνη
Transliteration
Diōnē
Pronunciation
/ diːˈoʊ.nɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Dione stands.

Dione does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Diones before her.

Real people
Dionne Warwick
American singer + I Say a Little Prayer 1967 + Burt Bacharach-Hal David songbook + Grammy Awards.
born 1940
In fiction
Dione
Titaness goddess + mother of Aphrodite per Homer's Iliad Book 5 + Oracle of Dodona oldest Hellenic oracle + Saturn's moon discovered by Cassini 1684.
Greek mythology

Names connected to Dione.

The number behind Dione.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Dione reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.