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Dominik

#986 in 2025Boys' name

Lord

Dominik has been given to 10,337 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #986 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 533 recorded.

Babies named Dominik, 2025

1 in 14,300

Dominik over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dominik: meaning, origin, and history

Lord

Latin

What Dominik means

Dominik means “Lord”, associated with Dominus.

Origin, language, and formation

Dominik is used in Czech, German, Polish and Slovak. Its origins include Latin.

Dominik comes through Late Latin Dominicus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dominic and Dominikus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Dominik is pronounced [ˈdomɪnɪk].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,242 boys were recorded with the name Dominik between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 533 in 2012; its best national rank was #500 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #946 in 2020 to #986 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #646 in 2015 to #986 in 2025.

In the United States, 95 girls were recorded with the name Dominik between 1986 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2011; its best national rank was #11,414 in 1986.

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 Dominik?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 14,300
232 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 7,360
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#986
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
9,906 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dominik 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 9,906 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dominik. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dominiks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dominik was born before 2010 — so the typical Dominik is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10,237
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Choose a decade

2010s — 38.3% of all recorded uses (3,920).

Is Dominik 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
+52
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−40
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−340
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.58×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
43.5%
Peak was 2012 (533)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#500
2012

Spellings of Dominik

Dominik is not the most common spelling — Dominic is, with 62.8% against Dominik's 3.3%.

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 Dominik is used

Across 2016–2025, Dominik was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 2,381 boys, against 1 in 6,719 across all states with data. It was least common in Louisiana (1 in 50,000).

242 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 2,381
  2. 2Michigan1 in 4,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in 4,167
  4. 4Nevada1 in 4,545
  5. 5Washington1 in 5,000
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 5,263
  7. 7California1 in 5,882
  8. 8Ohio1 in 5,882

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.

Geographically, Dominik is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 70% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Dominik around the world

Where Dominik 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
    1996–2025
    #487
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1998–2025
    #647
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2006–2023
    #395
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2006–2025
    #402
    in 2025
  • France
    1964–2025
    #3,619
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #483
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #679
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1981–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, 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 Dominik

People whose public names include Dominik, 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.

Dominik in other languages

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

DomenikDomingoDominicDomenicoDomingosDominiqueDomokosDomonkosDominikus

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

Dominik by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#986
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 40
Best rank ever
#500
2012
Peak year
2012
533 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,242
Count in 2025
232

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,414
1986
Peak year
2011
9 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
95
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dominik

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

DomenicDomingoDomanikDomenikDomonicDomenickDomenicoDomonikDominiqueDominickDominicDomonickDomoniqueDomanicDominqueDominiqDomaniDominicoDomynikDomnickDomnikDomanickDominykDominion

Names with a curve like Dominik

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

XzavierKoleLondonRohanTalonSemajMaximAlexzanderKeaganGiovaniDravenJacoby

Sibling names for Dominik

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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