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Dominic vs Domonic

American parents have registered 194,676 Dominics since 1880, against 3,057 Domonics. Dominic is still ahead, with 3,282 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dominic against Domonic, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dominic Domonic

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

Dominic has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1885 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1979, when Dominic had 1,061 and Domonic had 53.

Side by side

  Dominic Domonic
Total US births 194,6763,057
Most in one year 6,35299
Babies in 2025 3,28218
Estimated living today 176,0002,800
Median age today 1827
Peak year 20132004
Best rank 68th boys1,425th boys
Rank in 2025 106th5,208th
First recorded 18851914
Girls / boys 1,252 / 193,42467 / 2,990

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 Domonics alive today are over 27; half the Dominics are over 18. That is 9 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 Dominic Domonic
England and Wales 20,726139

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: Dominic and Domonic.