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Dominika

Girls' name

Feminine form of Dominic

Dominika has been given to 638 babies in the U.S. since 1983. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2006, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Dominika, 2024

1 in 418,000

Dominika over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dominika: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Dominic

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dominika means

Dominika is a feminine form of Dominic.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Dominika is used in Slovak, Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Slovene and Russian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈdɔ.mi.ni.ka/, /ˈdo.mɪ.nɪ.ka/, /dɔ.mi.ˈɲi.ka/, /ˈdo.mi.ni.kɒ/ and /də.mʲɪ.ˈnʲi.kə/ for Dominika.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Dominika → Dominic. The family’s meaning is “Lord”, recorded in English with the source elements Dominus.

Origin, language, and formation

Dominika is used in Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak and Slovene.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dominic.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Dominika is pronounced [ˈdomɪnɪka].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 638 girls were recorded with the name Dominika between 1983 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2006; its best national rank was #4,154 in 1997.

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 Dominika?

Dominika had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 418,000
8 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 203,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dominika 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 2024 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 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dominika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dominikas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dominika was born before 2003 — so the typical Dominika is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
35.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
62.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
638
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 35.0% of all recorded uses (223).

Is Dominika 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2006 (28)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,154
1997

Spellings of Dominika

Dominika is not the most common spelling — Dominga is, with 34.3% against Dominika's 5.4%.

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 Dominika is used

Across 1910–2025, Dominika was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 477,942 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Dominika has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dominika around the world

Where Dominika 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
    1998–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2006–2022
    #760
    in 2022
  • Northern Ireland
    2008–2010
    #324
    in 2010
  • Ireland
    2006–2019
    #871
    in 2019
  • France
    1991–2024
    #5,040
    in 2024
  • Norway
    1880–2013
    #595
    in 2013
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,222
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1972–2002
    #730
    in 2002

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.

Dominika by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,154
1997
Peak year
2006
28 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
638
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dominika

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

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Sibling names for Dominika

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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