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Domanick vs Dominique

American parents have registered 74,343 Dominiques since 1880, against 772 Domanicks. Dominique is still ahead, with 172 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Domanick 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

Dominique has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1912 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2009, when Domanick had 48 and Dominique had 574.

Side by side

  Domanick Dominique
Total US births 77274,343
Most in one year 544,671
Babies in 2025 under 5172
Estimated living today 76072,000
Median age today 2032
Peak year 20061985
Best rank 2,310th boys83rd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked3,130th
First recorded 19771912
Girls / boys 0 / 77250,786 / 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 Dominiques alive today are over 32; half the Domanicks are over 20. That is 12 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: Domanick and Dominique.