Sion
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Aleppo; Monastir; Smyrna; Súp, Turkey; Alexandria; Tunis; Béja; Mame; Vevey-Montreux; Santos; São Paulo; Buenos Aires; Sion, em Jerusalem (Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 34 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Sion is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- ALAlbania1 in 24K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 38K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 56Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 197 (measured from records)
- 1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Siôn in GB United Kingdom, AU Australia.
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)Aleppo; Monastir; Smyrna; Súp, Turkey; Alexandria; Tunis; Béja; Mame; Vevey-Montreux; Santos; São Paulo; Buenos Aires; Sion, em Jerusalem
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sion 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 56K | 4 | Siôn | 158 |
| US United States | 990 | 1 in 336K | 789 | Sion | 197 |
| IN India | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | 1 | — | 18 |
| AU Australia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 202K | — | Siôn | 51 |
| AL Albania | 127 | 1 in 24K | 127 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 109 | 1 in 94K | 109 | — | 1 |
| PA Panama | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 85K | 1 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | 20 | 1 in 38K | 20 | — | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)Sion is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cdo, squeeze. — slender and tall. convalescent, healed, cured, to reform, to harm. disquieted, agitated in mind. second in a series, 1 to 3 A.M. a clown, a jester, a buffoon, a comedian. he acts like the fool!
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, to negotiate, N to give vent to one’s feeling, to converse. to talk on all kinds of subjects
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In Khmer, bowl made of bamboo and coated with waterproofing resin, as a water container
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume II (ម-អ)
In French, Zion (a hill in Jerusalem, Israel, on which ancient Jerusalem was partly built; a centrepiece to Biblical accounts of old days and future eschatological events)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, a hamlet in Rijswijk, South Holland, Netherlands
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)- Sion Sonob. 1961JPJapanese filmmaker, author and poet
- Shion Miyawakib. 1990JPnot in their usual nameJapanese singer
- Shion Wakayamab. 1998JPnot in their usual nameJapanese voice actress
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)66 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 34 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sion mean?
- Recorded meaning: Aleppo; Monastir; Smyrna; Súp, Turkey; Alexandria; Tunis; Béja; Mame; Vevey-Montreux; Santos; São Paulo; Buenos Aires; Sion, em Jerusalem
- Which countries have the most people named Sion?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Sion in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled siôn. After it come United States, India, Australia and Albania; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Sion most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sion is densest in Albania — about 1 in 24 thousand people — even though United Kingdom holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sion?
- In the United States, the national register counted 990 people named Sion in 2020, about 1 in 336 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sion?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sionThe 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, “Sion” — ranked 544th in the United Kingdom (NRS). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.