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Domenick vs Dominick

American parents have registered 67,447 Dominicks since 1880, against 5,211 Domenicks. Dominick is still ahead, with 448 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Domenick against Dominick, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Domenick Dominick

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

Dominick has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1881 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1905, when Domenick had 13 and Dominick had 31.

Side by side

  Domenick Dominick
Total US births 5,21167,447
Most in one year 1031,788
Babies in 2025 18448
Estimated living today 2,80051,000
Median age today 3722
Peak year 19252003
Best rank 617th boys205th boys
Rank in 2025 5,208th622nd
First recorded 19021881
Girls / boys 0 / 5,211267 / 67,180

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 Domenicks alive today are over 37; half the Dominicks are over 22. That is 15 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: Domenick and Dominick.