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Domingos vs Dominik

American parents have registered 10,337 Dominiks since 1880, against 71 Domingoses. Dominik is still ahead, with 232 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Domingos 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 61 years in which either name was published, Dominik for 53 years and Domingos for 8 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Domingos Dominik
Total US births 7110,337
Most in one year 9533
Babies in 2025 under 5232
Estimated living today 3010,000
Median age today 5115
Peak year 19192012
Best rank 2,877th boys499th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked984th
First recorded 19191916
Girls / boys 0 / 7195 / 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 Domingoses alive today are over 51; half the Dominiks are over 15. That is 36 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Domingos Dominik
France 455210

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: Domingos and Dominik.