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Domenic vs Domenica

American parents have registered 11,066 Domenics since 1880, against 3,503 Domenicas. Domenic is still ahead, with 60 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Domenic against Domenica, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Domenic Domenica

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 124 years in which either name was published, Domenic for 115 years and Domenica for 9 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Domenic Domenica
Total US births 11,0663,503
Most in one year 219118
Babies in 2025 6020
Estimated living today 7,5002,100
Median age today 2842
Peak year 20031979
Best rank 797th boys1,136th girls
Rank in 2025 2,304th5,917th
First recorded 19041898
Girls / boys 0 / 11,0663,503 / 0

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 Domenicas alive today are over 42; half the Domenics are over 28. That is 14 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Domenic Domenica
France 5410
England and Wales 4723

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: Domenic and Domenica.