Humanverse

Domenique vs Dominik

American parents have registered 10,337 Dominiks since 1880, against 734 Domeniques. Dominik is still ahead, with 232 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Domenique against Dominik, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Domenique Dominik

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 55 years in which either name was published, Dominik for 47 years and Domenique for 8 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Domenique Dominik
Total US births 73410,337
Most in one year 52533
Babies in 2025 under 5232
Estimated living today 72010,000
Median age today 3315
Peak year 19932012
Best rank 3,108th girls499th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked984th
First recorded 19651916
Girls / boys 540 / 19495 / 10,242

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 Domeniques alive today are over 33; half the Dominiks are over 15. That is 18 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.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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