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Dominic vs Domonick

American parents have registered 194,676 Dominics since 1880, against 1,142 Domonicks. Dominic is still ahead, with 3,282 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Dominic Domonick

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 1983, when Dominic had 1,071 and Domonick had 26.

Side by side

  Dominic Domonick
Total US births 194,6761,142
Most in one year 6,35242
Babies in 2025 3,2825
Estimated living today 176,0001,000
Median age today 1826
Peak year 20132002
Best rank 68th boys2,403rd boys
Rank in 2025 106th12,008th
First recorded 18851915
Girls / boys 1,252 / 193,4240 / 1,142

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 Domonicks alive today are over 26; half the Dominics are over 18. That is 8 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: Dominic and Domonick.