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Domenic vs Dominik

American parents have registered 11,066 Domenics since 1880, against 10,337 Dominiks. But in 2025 it was Dominik that was commoner, 232 babies to 60.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Domenic against Dominik, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Domenic Dominik

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 122 years in which either name was published, Domenic for 94 years and Dominik for 28 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Domenic Dominik
Total US births 11,06610,337
Most in one year 219533
Babies in 2025 60232
Estimated living today 7,50010,000
Median age today 2815
Peak year 20032012
Best rank 797th boys499th boys
Rank in 2025 2,304th984th
First recorded 19041916
Girls / boys 0 / 11,06695 / 10,242

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 Domenics alive today are over 28; half the Dominiks are over 15. That is 13 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Domenic Dominik
England and Wales 473,573
France 5210

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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