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Domingo vs Dominique

American parents have registered 74,343 Dominiques since 1880, against 14,400 Domingos. Dominique is still ahead, with 172 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Domingo against Dominique, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Domingo Dominique

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 128 years in which either name was published, Domingo for 68 years and Dominique for 60 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Domingo Dominique
Total US births 14,40074,343
Most in one year 1954,671
Babies in 2025 74172
Estimated living today 9,20072,000
Median age today 4632
Peak year 19461985
Best rank 462nd boys83rd girls
Rank in 2025 2,020th3,130th
First recorded 18821912
Girls / boys 26 / 14,37450,786 / 23,557

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 Domingos alive today are over 46; half the Dominiques are over 32. That is 14 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 Domingo Dominique
France 610409,980

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: Domingo and Dominique.