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Dominick vs Domonick

American parents have registered 67,447 Dominicks since 1880, against 1,142 Domonicks. Dominick is still ahead, with 448 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Dominick 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

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 1983, when Dominick had 318 and Domonick had 26.

Side by side

  Dominick Domonick
Total US births 67,4471,142
Most in one year 1,78842
Babies in 2025 4485
Estimated living today 51,0001,000
Median age today 2226
Peak year 20032002
Best rank 205th boys2,403rd boys
Rank in 2025 622nd12,008th
First recorded 18811915
Girls / boys 267 / 67,1800 / 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 Dominicks are over 22. That is 4 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: Dominick and Domonick.