"Variant of John"
The name Sione is commonly a male name from the "Hebrew" origin.
Sione is the Tongan form of John, and the same spelling is used in Samoan. Both languages took the name through Christian missionary translation, and in Tongan the Gospel of John is titled Ko e Kosipeli a Sione. It is a Polynesian counterpart of John rather than an independent coinage.
John means "God is gracious".
The pronunciation of Sione is see-OH-nay.
