Domingo
Masculine · “of the Lord”
Domingo is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 14,374 boys against 26 girls since 1880.
Domingo is Sunday in Spanish — the Lord's day, dies dominica — and the Dominican order is named for a man called that.
How old is the name Domingo?
Domingo first appears in US birth records in 1882 — 143 years ago. The typical Domingo alive today was born around 1963, making them about 62 years old. About 9,400 people named Domingo are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Domingo most popular?
Domingo peaked in 1944, reaching #460 nationally. Today it ranks #2020, 1,560 places below that high. See the whole 1944 chart.
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Where it comes from
From dominicus to Domingo
The story of Domingo
Domingo de Guzmán founded the Order of Preachers in 1216, and the Dominicans are named for him; the island of Hispaniola's Santo Domingo, the oldest continuous European settlement in the Americas, is named for his father. Plácido Domingo carries the surname. The name appears in American records in current use.
Meaning
of the Lord, Sunday
From the Latin dominicus, 'belonging to the lord', from dominus. The Church called Sunday dies dominica, and Spanish reduced it to domingo, which is both the weekday and the name. The etymology is transparent and undisputed.
How the name formed
- dominicus
- dies dominica
- Domingo
Related forms: Domingo · Domingos · Domenico · Dominic
Pronouncing Domingo
doh-MEEN-goh
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Spanish gives every vowel a full value with no reduction.
Nicknames for Domingo
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1882
- Most boys named
- 1947190 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #460reached in 1944
- Change vs 2022
- −17.8%74 in 2025, from 90
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Domingo in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Domingo in Spanish — same name
- Domingos in Portuguese — related form
- Domenico in Italian — related form
- Dominic in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Domingos among us
people named Domingo are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 23,082 born in 2025 was named Domingo
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Elizabeth test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Domingo's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Elizabeth climbed just as high around 1902, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Elizabeth's path sketches the road Domingo is walking now.
Domingo sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Domingo is headed
Domingo should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Domingo beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Domingo in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That the name and the weekday are the same word in Spanish is a genuinely good fact.
- The founder of the Dominican order carries it.
- Mingo is a warm and very widely used Spanish short form.
- It is the ordinary Spanish word for Sunday.
- It reads as specifically Spanish-speaking and somewhat traditional.
- Dominic is what English speakers will substitute.
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Frequently asked
- How many Domingos are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 9,400 people named Domingo are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Domingo in 2025?
- Domingo ranks #2020 among US boy names in 2025, with 74 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Domingo?
- About 1 in every 23,082 US boys born in 2025 was named Domingo — 74 in all.
- Will my child share the name Domingo with classmates?
- Domingo will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Domingo
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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