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Domingo vs Dominika

American parents have registered 14,400 Domingos since 1880, against 638 Dominikas. Domingo is still ahead, with 74 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Domingo against Dominika, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Domingo 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

Domingo has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1882 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2011, when Domingo had 59 and Dominika had 22.

Side by side

  Domingo Dominika
Total US births 14,400638
Most in one year 19528
Babies in 2025 74under 5
Estimated living today 9,200630
Median age today 4622
Peak year 19462006
Best rank 462nd boys4,953rd girls
Rank in 2025 2,020thunranked
First recorded 18821983
Girls / boys 26 / 14,374638 / 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 Domingos alive today are over 46; half the Dominikas are over 22. That is 24 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 Domingo Dominika
France 61045

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: Domingo and Dominika.