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Dominica

#13,655 in 2025Girls' name

Lord’s Day, day of the Lord, Sunday

Dominica has been given to 2,338 babies in the U.S. since 1909. In 2025 it ranked #13,655 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1979, with 56 recorded.

Babies named Dominica, 2025

1 in 553,000

Dominica over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dominica: meaning, origin, and history

Lord’s Day, day of the Lord, Sunday

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dominica means

Dominica means “Lord’s Day, day of the Lord, Sunday”, associated with Dominica.

Origin, language, and formation

Dominica is used in Latin.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Latin, Dominica is pronounced [dɔˈmɪ.nɪ.ka].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,338 girls were recorded with the name Dominica between 1909 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 56 in 1979; its best national rank was #1,252 in 1916.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,087 in 2020 to #13,655 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,120 in 2015 to #13,655 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 Dominica?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,655
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dominica sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dominica. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dominicas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dominica was born before 1982 — so the typical Dominica is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
19.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,807
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Choose a decade

1980s — 19.3% of all recorded uses (451).

Is Dominica 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
−3,160
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,568
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,535
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.43×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.7%
Peak was 1979 (56)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,252
1916

Spellings of Dominica

Dominica is not the most common spelling — Dominga is, with 32.1% against Dominica's 18.6%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Dominica is used

Across 1910–2025, Dominica was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 160,990 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 50,000
  2. 2New York1 in 50,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Louisiana1 in —
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Dominica has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dominica around the world

Where Dominica 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
    1996–2024
    #4,193
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    1974–2008
    #862
    in 2008
  • France
    1900–1974
    #2,309
    in 1974
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1959–1996
    #712
    in 1996

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.

Notable people named Dominica

People whose public names include Dominica, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Dominica in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Dominica. Linked forms have their own page here.

DomenicaDominikaDominiquaDominiqueDoménica

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Dominica by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,655
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,568
Best rank ever
#1,252
1916
Peak year
1979
56 that year
First recorded
1909
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,338
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Dominica

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

DomenicaDomingaDominicDominqueAnjelicaNauticaJennicaYessicaDominikaJerricaYesicaDomoniqueLamonicaJenicaDomonicaDomitilaFredericaJericaBeronicaFedericaDominickJesicaDomeniqueFredrica

Names with a curve like Dominica

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Dominica, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Dominica

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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