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Dom

#3,530 in 2025Boys' name

Lord, through Dominic

Dom has been given to 424 babies in the U.S. since 1928. In 2025 it ranked #3,530 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Dom, 2025

1 in 104,000

Dom over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dom: meaning, origin, and history

Lord, through Dominic

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dom means

Dom belongs to the name family reached through Dom → Dominic. Its meaning is “Lord”.

Origin, language, and formation

Dom is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dominic.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Dom is pronounced /dɑm/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 424 boys were recorded with the name Dom between 1928 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 32 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,993 in 1959.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,575 in 2020 to #3,530 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,555 in 2015 to #3,530 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Dom?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 104,000
32 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 53,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,530
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
71,810 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dom sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 71,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dom. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Doms were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dom was born before 1970 — so the typical Dom is around 55 today.

Median birth year
1970
About 55 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
31.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
46.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
366
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Choose a decade

2020s — 31.1% of all recorded uses (132).

Is Dom rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+294
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,045
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+9,025
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
6.40×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (32)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,993
1959

Where Dom is used

Across 1910–2025, Dom was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 393,741 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Dom has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dom around the world

Where Dom ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2021–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2023–2025
    #577
    in 2025
  • France
    2012–2025
    #6,356
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2019–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1958–1989
    #478
    in 1989

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Dom by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,530
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,045
Best rank ever
#1,993
1959
Peak year
2025
32 that year
First recorded
1928
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
424
Count in 2025
32

Names similar to Dom

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Dom

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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