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Dominique vs Domonic

American parents have registered 74,343 Dominiques since 1880, against 3,057 Domonics. Dominique is still ahead, with 172 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dominique against Domonic, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dominique 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

Of the 94 years in which either name was published, Dominique for 78 years and Domonic for 16 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Dominique Domonic
Total US births 74,3433,057
Most in one year 4,67199
Babies in 2025 17218
Estimated living today 72,0002,800
Median age today 3227
Peak year 19852004
Best rank 83rd girls1,425th boys
Rank in 2025 3,130th5,208th
First recorded 19121914
Girls / boys 50,786 / 23,55767 / 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 Dominiques alive today are over 32; half the Domonics are over 27. That is 5 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 Dominique Domonic
England and Wales 860139

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: Dominique and Domonic.