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Domingo vs Dominque

American parents have registered 14,400 Domingos since 1880, against 6,282 Dominques. Domingo is still ahead, with 74 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Domingo against Dominque, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Domingo Dominque

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 128 years in which either name was published, Domingo for 110 years and Dominque for 18 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Domingo Dominque
Total US births 14,4006,282
Most in one year 195486
Babies in 2025 74under 5
Estimated living today 9,2006,100
Median age today 4634
Peak year 19461985
Best rank 462nd boys603rd girls
Rank in 2025 2,020thunranked
First recorded 18821965
Girls / boys 26 / 14,3743,872 / 2,410

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 Dominques are over 34. That is 12 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.

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