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Dominque

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Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Dominque has been given to 6,282 babies in the U.S. since 1965. 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 1985, with 314 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 62% girls, 38% boys all-time.

Babies named Dominque, 2013

1 in 521,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2023, Dominque went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19652023

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.

Dominque: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dominque means

Dominque is a given name.

The naming story behind Dominque

Wikidata records Dominque as a given name. The entity identifier is Q121422447, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,872 girls were recorded with the name Dominque between 1965 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 314 in 1985; its best national rank was #604 in 1985.

In the United States, 2,410 boys were recorded with the name Dominque between 1968 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 237 in 1992; its best national rank was #671 in 1992.

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 Dominque?

Dominque had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 521,000
7 of 3,645,938 births
Among girls only
1 in 251,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
361,026 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dominque 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 2013 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 361,026 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dominque. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dominques were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dominque was born before 1990 — so the typical Dominque is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
46.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,872
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 46.5% of all recorded uses (1,802).

Is Dominque 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 1985 (314)
Years since peak
40
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#604
1985

Spellings of Dominque

Dominque is not the most common spelling — Dominique is, with 84.1% against Dominque's 6.4%.

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 Dominque is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Dominque was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 51,144 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 25,000
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 25,000
  3. 3California1 in 33,333
  4. 4Florida1 in 33,333
  5. 5Illinois1 in 33,333
  6. 6Michigan1 in 33,333
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 33,333
  8. 8Alabama1 in 50,000

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

Where Dominque is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Dominque was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 113,830 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 50,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 50,000
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 50,000
  4. 4South Carolina1 in 50,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 50,000
  6. 6Alabama1 in 100,000
  7. 7California1 in 100,000
  8. 8District of Columbia1 in 100,000

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

Dominque around the world

Where Dominque 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.

  • Canada
    1998–1998
    #2,262
    in 1998

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Dominque 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
#604
1985
Peak year
1985
314 that year
First recorded
1965
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
3,872
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#671
1992
Peak year
1992
237 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
2,410
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dominque

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

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Names with a curve like Dominque

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

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Sibling names for Dominque

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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