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Dominico

#9,124 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Dominico has been given to 444 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #9,124 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Dominico, 2025

1 in 414,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dominico: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dominico means

Dominico is a given name.

The naming story behind Dominico

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Dominico in its glossary. The entry labels it masculine and points to printed page(s) 218.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “It. Lat. Sunday child”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Dominico, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 444 boys were recorded with the name Dominico between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2010; its best national rank was #3,334 in 1967.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,966 in 2020 to #9,124 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,816 in 2015 to #9,124 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.

How common is Dominico?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,124
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dominico 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dominico. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dominicos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dominico was born before 2005 — so the typical Dominico is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
24.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
421
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2000s — 24.8% of all recorded uses (110).

Is Dominico 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
−2,189
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,842
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+692
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
53.3%
Peak was 2010 (15)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,334
1967

Spellings of Dominico

Dominico is not the most common spelling — Dominic is, with 62.0% against Dominico's 0.14%.

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 Dominico is used

Across 1910–2025, Dominico was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Dominico has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dominico around the world

Where Dominico 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.

  • France
    1924–1972
    #2,131
    in 1972
  • Canada
    2020–2020
    #2,570
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1948–2002
    #606
    in 2002

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

Dominico by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,124
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,842
Best rank ever
#3,334
1967
Peak year
2010
15 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
444
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Dominico

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

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Sibling names for Dominico

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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