Dominic
Dominic reached its high-water mark in 2013 at number 68, and has been recorded 194,676 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 106th. About 176,000 Dominics are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Dominic boys named Dominic
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 194,676
- Estimated living today
- 176,000
- Median age today
- 18
- Peak year
- 2013
- Best rank
- 68th
- Rank in 2025
- 106th
- First recorded
- 1885
- Girls / boys
- 1,252 / 193,424
How old the living Dominics are
born that year still alive today
Of the 194,676 babies given the name since 1885, about 176,000 are alive — 91 in every hundred. Roughly 86,000 of them are children and 4,500 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
From Latin Dominicus, derived from Dominus (“Lord”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Dominics
- Dominic Monaghan (born 1976)German-born British actor
- Dominic Purcell (born 1970)actor
- Dominic Raab (born 1974)British politician
- Dominic Calvert-Lewin (born 1997)English association football player
- Dominic Cooper (born 1978)British actor
- Dominic Thiem (born 1993)Austrian male tennis player
- Dominic West (born 1969)British actor
- Dominic Solanke (born 1997)English association football player
People named Dominic with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Dominic is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Dominic is most concentrated in New Mexico (3.0×), Nevada (2.9×), Arizona (2.2×), Colorado (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2013
The most popular boys’ names the year Dominic peaked:
Dominic elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Dominic | 20,726 | 51st |
| Austria boys | Dominic | 1,731 | 39th |
| Scotland boys | Dominic | 1,701 | 98th |
| Ireland boys | Dominic | 1,579 | 131st |
| Switzerland boys | Dominic | 1,405 | 51st |
| Italy boys | Dominic | 819 | — |
| New Zealand boys | Dominic | 801 | 68th |
| Poland boys | Dominic | 643 birth registrations | 170th |
| France boys | Dominic | 580 | 900th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Dominic | 277 | 118th |
| Belgium boys | Dominic | 241 | 395th |
| Norway boys | Dominic | 153 | 281st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Dominic: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Dominic | 1,346 | 0.108% | 38th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Dominic | 37 | 0.009% | 355th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Dominic | 14 | 0.021% | 125th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Dominic | 8 | 0.215% | 3rd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Dominic is most concentrated in Bern, where 0.16% of children were given it – 337 of them.
Dominic: rank by region
In 2025, Dominic was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Dominic | 589 | 9 |
| Brussels | Dominic | 130 | 9 |
In 2024, Dominic was given 2 times or more in 4 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Małopolskie | Dominic | 205 | 3 |
| Podkarpackie | Dominic | 161 | 2 |
| Podlaskie | Dominic | 116 | 2 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Dominic | 135 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Dominic appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (130th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Dominic by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 26 | 371st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Dominic among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Dominic | 354 | 561 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Dominic lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 611 men called Dominic were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Dominic | 26 | 0.049 | 1,624 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Dominic | 49 | 0.049 | 1,337 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Dominic | 15 | 0.048 | 1,225 |
| Málaga | Dominic | 40 | 0.046 | 1,175 |
| Balears, Illes | Dominic | 28 | 0.045 | 1,294 |
| Navarra | Dominic | 15 | 0.044 | 1,317 |
Listed in 29 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 23 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Dominic against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.