Dionne Coat of Arms and Surname Origin

Behind the Dionne surname stands Dion, a French name that clerks and families wrote in more than one way. At root, the name means “Descendant of Dion (Grecian god of wine); one who came from Dionne, in Burgundy”.

Family crest and blazon

Arms linked to Dion and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Dionne and Dion

The ending -ne in Dionne is a typical French derivative of the root behind Dion. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

Dionne ranked 5,153 in the 2010 US Census, with 6,788 people answering to the name. That puts it among the top 10,000 US surnames. Want more than a summary? See the Dionne family name pack.