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Domanique vs Dominic

American parents have registered 194,676 Dominics since 1880, against 521 Domaniques. Dominic is still ahead, with 3,282 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Domanique 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 1989, when Domanique had 29 and Dominic had 1,500.

Side by side

  Domanique Dominic
Total US births 521194,676
Most in one year 386,352
Babies in 2025 under 53,282
Estimated living today 510176,000
Median age today 3118
Peak year 19932013
Best rank 3,681st girls68th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked106th
First recorded 19761885
Girls / boys 375 / 1461,252 / 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 Domaniques alive today are over 31; half the Dominics are over 18. That is 13 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Domanique and Dominic.