Sione
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sioʊn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sione is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 139K(measured from records)
- TOTonga≈1 in 1.1K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 13K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 60 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
1,797 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Tonga, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sione 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,797 | 1 in 185K | 1.8K | Sione | 42 |
| BR Brazil | 1,524 | 1 in 139K | 1.6K | Sione | 60 |
| AU Australia | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 40K | 1 | — | — |
| CO Colombia | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 116K | — | Sione | 6 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 27 | Sione | 15 |
| TO Tonga | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 36 | — | 4 |
1,797 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); This page features a report on the most popular Pacific baby names in 2024, published by Kaniva Tonga.; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
Sione is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, ablative singular of Sīōn
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)
- Sione Lātūkefub. 1927TOTongan historian (1927-1995)
- The Barbarianb. 1958TOnot in their usual nameTongan professional wrestler
- Sione Vaveni Talia'ulib. 1966Tongan boxer
- Sione Sangster Saulalab. 1974TOTongan politician
- Sione Lauakib. 1981TOTongan-New Zealand rugby union footballer (1981-2017)
- Sione Piukalab. 1985TOTongan rugby union player
- Sione Fakaʻosileab. 1987TOTongan rugby union footballer (1987-)
- Sione Kalamafonib. 1988TOTongan rugby union footballer
- Sione Fuab. 1988TOTongan-American football player
- Sione Moliab. 1993NZNew Zealand rugby union player (1993-)
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.8K | #8,139 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.6K | #6,753 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 1.5K | #3,433 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 1.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.4K | #6,182 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 1.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 872 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 507 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 442 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 365 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 253 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname 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
- How do you pronounce Sione?
- A machine transcription gives /sioʊn/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Sione?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,797 people named Sione in 2020, about 1 in 185 thousand residents.
- Is Sione a male or female name?
- Sione is a female 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.
- In which country does Sione have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Sione, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sione.
What do you want to know about Sione?
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/sioneThe 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, “Sione”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.