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Domenic vs Dominga

American parents have registered 11,066 Domenics since 1880, against 4,044 Domingas. Domenic is still ahead, with 60 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Domenic against Dominga, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Domenic Dominga

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 126 years in which either name was published, Domenic for 108 years and Dominga for 18 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.

Side by side

  Domenic Dominga
Total US births 11,0664,044
Most in one year 219102
Babies in 2025 6032
Estimated living today 7,5001,900
Median age today 2863
Peak year 20031925
Best rank 797th boys727th girls
Rank in 2025 2,304th4,352nd
First recorded 19041894
Girls / boys 0 / 11,0664,034 / 10

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Domingas alive today are over 63; half the Domenics are over 28. That is 35 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Domenic and Dominga.