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Domani vs Dominic

American parents have registered 194,676 Dominics since 1880, against 639 Domanis. Dominic is still ahead, with 3,282 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Domani against Dominic, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Domani Dominic

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

Dominic has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1885 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Domani had 44 and Dominic had 3,282.

Side by side

  Domani Dominic
Total US births 639194,676
Most in one year 716,352
Babies in 2025 443,282
Estimated living today 630176,000
Median age today 918
Peak year 20122013
Best rank 1,983rd boys68th boys
Rank in 2025 3,089th106th
First recorded 20011885
Girls / boys 10 / 6291,252 / 193,424

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 Dominics alive today are over 18; half the Domanis are over 9. That is 9 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: Domani and Dominic.