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Dominick vs Dominik

American parents have registered 67,447 Dominicks since 1880, against 10,337 Dominiks. Dominick is still ahead, with 448 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dominick against Dominik, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dominick 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

Dominick has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1881 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Dominick had 448 and Dominik had 232.

Side by side

  Dominick Dominik
Total US births 67,44710,337
Most in one year 1,788533
Babies in 2025 448232
Estimated living today 51,00010,000
Median age today 2215
Peak year 20032012
Best rank 205th boys499th boys
Rank in 2025 622nd984th
First recorded 18811916
Girls / boys 267 / 67,18095 / 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 Dominicks alive today are over 22; half the Dominiks are over 15. That is 7 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 Dominick Dominik
Poland 3373,372
England and Wales 3113,573
Italy 3301,107
Ireland 304608
Scotland 3264
France 25210

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.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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