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Domingos vs Dominique

American parents have registered 74,343 Dominiques since 1880, against 71 Domingoses. Dominique is still ahead, with 172 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Domingos 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 84 years in which either name was published, Dominique for 79 years and Domingos for 5 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Domingos Dominique
Total US births 7174,343
Most in one year 94,671
Babies in 2025 under 5172
Estimated living today 3072,000
Median age today 5132
Peak year 19191985
Best rank 2,877th boys83rd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked3,130th
First recorded 19191912
Girls / boys 0 / 7150,786 / 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 Domingoses alive today are over 51; half the Dominiques are over 32. That is 19 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 Dominique
France 455409,980

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: Domingos and Dominique.