Dominic
Feminine · “of the Lord”
Dominic is given to boys far more often — 193,424 boys against 1,252 girls since 1880. See Dominic as a boy name
Dominic began as a Sunday name. Latin dies dominica, the Lord's day, gave Dominicus, and for centuries a child born on a Sunday was liable to receive it — a name that records a day of the week as much as a faith. It travels better than almost anything else in its class: Domingo in Spanish, Domenico in Italian, Dominik across central Europe, all of them the same word.
How old is the name Dominic?
Dominic first appears in US birth records in 1918 — 107 years ago. The typical Dominic alive today was born around 1991, making them about 34 years old. About 1,200 people named Dominic are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Dominic most popular?
Dominic peaked in 1986, reaching #1691 nationally. Today it ranks #14942, 13,251 places below that high. See the whole 1986 chart.
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Where it comes from
From dominus to Dominic
The story of Dominic
The name belongs to the medieval church before it belongs to anyone else. Dominic of Caleruega, a Castilian priest of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, founded the Order of Preachers, and his friars carried both the order and the name across Europe — which is why every Catholic language has a version of it and why the black-and-white habit is still called Dominican. The map kept it too: Columbus's brother founded Santo Domingo, and the republic that grew around it took the name of the city. English use runs alongside all of that, steady rather than fashionable, and in recent decades an Austrian tennis player named Dominic Thiem has carried it to a US Open title. The name has never needed a revival because it has never gone away.
Meaning
of the Lord; belonging to the Lord
Latin dominicus is a plain adjective from dominus, lord or master of the household. The Sunday connection is not a second meaning but the same one applied: dies dominica, the Lord's day. That puts Dominic in a small class of names that fix a day rather than a quality — Natalie for Christmas, Pascal for Easter, Dominic for Sunday. Nothing here is contested.
How the name formed
- dominus
- Dominicus
- Dominic
Related forms: Domingo · Domenico · Domingos · Dominique · Dominik · Domonkos
Pronouncing Dominic
DOM-uh-nick
Three syllables, stress at the front, the middle vowel reduced almost to nothing: DOM-uh-nick. Spanish and Italian move the weight and change the vowels but not the shape, so the name survives translation without becoming unrecognizable.
Nicknames for Dominic
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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
- 1918
- Most girls named
- 198669 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1691reached in 1986
- Change vs 2024
- −28.6%5 in 2025, from 7
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.
Dominic in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Domingo in Spanish — same name
- Domenico in Italian — same name
- Domingos in Portuguese — same name
- Dominique in French — same name
- Dominik in Polish — same name
- Domonkos in Hungarian — same name
Dominics among us
people named Dominic are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 321,453 born in 2025 was named Dominic
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 Marlynn test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Dominic's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Marlynn climbed just as high around 1936, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Marlynn's path sketches the road Dominic is walking now.
Dominic 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
Dominic beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Dominic in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Every major European language already has this name, so it crosses a border without being translated or explained.
- Dom is a complete working name rather than a clipping that needs the long form standing behind it.
- It is said the way it is written, in any accent, and has been for eight centuries.
- The name has visible footholds outside naming fashion — an order of friars, a Caribbean republic, a capital city.
- Dominic and Dominick both look right, so the spelling will be asked for and then sometimes ignored anyway.
- The origin is unmistakably Catholic. For some families that is the point; for others it is a history they are not part of and would rather not imply.
- Dom carries other freight in English — dominant, dominate — and a child who tires of it has Nic waiting.
- This spelling is on record for girls, though so rarely that a girl named Dominic will be read as a boy on every form for life. Dominique is the same name without that friction.
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Frequently asked
- How many Dominics are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Dominic are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Dominic in 2025?
- Dominic ranks #14942 among US girl names in 2025, with 5 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Dominic?
- About 1 in every 321,453 US girls born in 2025 was named Dominic — 5 in all.
- Will my child share the name Dominic with classmates?
- Dominic will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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