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Domenic vs Dominika

American parents have registered 11,066 Domenics since 1880, against 638 Dominikas. Domenic is still ahead, with 60 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Domenic Dominika

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

Domenic has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1904 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2018, when Domenic had 73 and Dominika had 14.

Side by side

  Domenic Dominika
Total US births 11,066638
Most in one year 21928
Babies in 2025 60under 5
Estimated living today 7,500630
Median age today 2822
Peak year 20032006
Best rank 797th boys4,953rd girls
Rank in 2025 2,304thunranked
First recorded 19041983
Girls / boys 0 / 11,066638 / 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 Domenics alive today are over 28; half the Dominikas are over 22. That is 6 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 Dominika
England and Wales 47633
France 545

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 Dominika.