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Dominique

#3,140 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Of the Lord

Dominique has been given to 74,343 babies in the U.S. since 1949. In 2025 it ranked #3,140 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1985, with 3,299 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 68% girls, 32% boys all-time.

Babies named Dominique, 2025

1 in 65,000

Dominique over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Dominique over time

In 2025, Dominique went to 30% girls and 70% boys.

19122025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Dominique: meaning, origin, and history

Of the Lord

French, ultimately Latin

About Dominique

Dominique is the French masculine and feminine form of Dominicus, meaning of the Lord. It gives the same spelling to men and women, a tradition reflected in American namesakes such as gymnast Dominique Dawes and basketball player Dominique Wilkins. Its three syllables and final neek sound distinguish it from English Dominic.

Meaning and name family

The Latin Dominicus developed from the word for lord. The name was traditionally associated with children born on Sunday, the Lord's day. Saint Dominic, the thirteenth-century founder of the Dominican order, helped give the family a lasting place in Christian naming.

French Dominique serves both sexes. English Dominic and Dominica, Italian Domenico and Domenica, and Spanish Domingo and Dominga express the masculine and feminine distinction differently. The French ending que represents a k sound and does not add a syllable.

French pronunciation is approximately daw-mee-NEEK, with relatively even syllables rather than strongly marked English stress. Dom could serve as a suggested everyday shortening, while the full Dominique preserves the long final vowel.

Dominique Dawes and gymnastics

Dominique Dawes competed on three United States Olympic gymnastics teams. She won team bronze in 1992, team gold in 1996, and team bronze in 2000. At the Atlanta Games in 1996 she also won an individual bronze medal on floor exercise.

That floor medal made Dawes the first African American gymnast to win an individual Olympic event medal. Her achievements also included the 1994 United States all-around title and titles on all four apparatus at that championship.

Dawes's public name became familiar through a career spanning much of the 1990s. It provides a prominent feminine example of Dominique in American sport, with achievements across both team and individual competition.

Dominique Wilkins and basketball

Dominique Wilkins was a nine-time NBA All-Star and entered the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006. Known as the Human Highlight Film, he was particularly celebrated for powerful, acrobatic dunking and his long association with the Atlanta Hawks.

Wilkins led the NBA in scoring during the 1985–86 season, averaging 30.3 points per game. His career included eleven consecutive seasons averaging more than twenty points. He also won the NBA Slam Dunk Contest twice.

The shared first name connects Dawes and Wilkins without changing its spelling for gender. Both became recognizable through athletic performances, though in very different competitive settings.

American popularity

Dominique's strongest United States girls' ranking and largest annual count came in 1985: #83, with 3,299 births. For boys, the high point came in 1991, at #170, with 1,869 births.

In 2025, 121 boys and 51 girls received the name. The two American peaks occurred in different years, with a particularly large female wave during the 1980s and a substantial male presence into the following decade.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Origins and cultural connections draw on the references below. American figures use the local SSA series for the exact spelling and sex, omitting counts below five. Existing Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA. Suggested shortenings are identified in the text.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How popular is Dominique?

In 2025, Dominique ranked #3,140 among girls in the United States, with 51 recorded uses. The U.S. birth records first list this spelling for girls in 1949; its largest annual count was 3,299 in 1985. Rankings count each spelling separately. They describe national use, so local familiarity can differ. The popularity chart shows whether the name has remained common, returned after a quieter period, or risen recently.

How common is Dominique?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 65,000
51 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 31,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,140
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
45,058 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dominique 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 45,058 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dominique. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dominiques were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dominique was born before 1992 — so the typical Dominique is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
46.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
50,781
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 46.6% of all recorded uses (23,649).

Is Dominique 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
−603
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,056
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,551
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.37×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
1.5%
Peak was 1985 (3,299)
Years since peak
40
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#83
1985

Spellings of Dominique

Dominique is the most-used spelling, taking 84.1% of the 60,370 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Dominique is used — girls

Across 2016–2025, Dominique was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 19,853 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

19 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 11,111
  2. 2Florida1 in 12,500
  3. 3Maryland1 in 12,500
  4. 4Texas1 in 14,286
  5. 5California1 in 16,667
  6. 6Georgia1 in 20,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 20,000
  8. 8Arizona1 in 25,000

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.

Where Dominique is used — boys

Across 2016–2025, Dominique was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 3,846 boys, against 1 in 10,844 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).

126 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 3,846
  2. 2Georgia1 in 4,167
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 5,556
  4. 4Michigan1 in 5,882
  5. 5Ohio1 in 7,143
  6. 6Texas1 in 7,692
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 9,091
  8. 8Missouri1 in 9,091

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.

Dominique around the world

Where Dominique 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
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1976–2008
    #650
    in 2008
  • Ireland
    1973–2004
    #677
    in 2004
  • France
    1900–2021
    #5,844
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1963–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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 Dominique

People whose public names include Dominique, 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.

Dominique in other languages

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

DomingaDomingoDominicDominikDomenicoDominicaDomeniqueDominiquaDomekaĐa MinhDomonkos

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

Dominique by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,140
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,056
Best rank ever
#83
1985
Peak year
1985
3,299 that year
First recorded
1949
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
50,786
Count in 2025
51

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,468
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 323
Best rank ever
#170
1991
Peak year
1991
1,869 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
23,557
Count in 2025
121

Names similar to Dominique

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

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Names with a curve like Dominique

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

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Sibling names for Dominique

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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