Meaning not yet researched.
Dominique: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 121 in 2025. Its best rank was #170 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #170 in 1991; #1,468 in 2025. About 70% of babies named Dominique in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,468 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #170.
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Dominique: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 121 boys in 2025. Peak: #170 in 1991 · most boys in one year: 1,869 (1991).
In 2025, 121 US boys were named Dominique, making it the 1,468th most common boys’ name of the year, up 5 places from #1,473 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 123 boys named Dominique in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #170, reached in 1991. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,869. For comparison, it was #911 in 2015 and #3,107 in 1950.
In 2025, 51 US girls were named Dominique, making it the 3,140th most common girls’ name of the year, down 603 places from #2,537 in 2024. That is 19 fewer than the 70 girls named Dominique in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #83, reached in 1985. That year also had the most girls given the name: 3,299. For comparison, it was #1,589 in 2015 and #4,043 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dominique in 79 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 5 babies. In all, 74,343 US babies have been given the name, 68% of them girls and 32% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 34,630 babies named Dominique.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,648 US boys were named Dominique; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 213. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,116 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dominique ranked highest in South Carolina in 2025, at #623 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Dominic (194,676 babies since 1880), Dominick (67,447 babies since 1880), Domingo (14,400 babies since 1880) and Dominik (10,337 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Dominica, Domenique and Domanique are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Dominica (2,338), Domenique (734), Domanique (521), Dominiqua (80), Domineque (41), Dominiqu (15), Domynique (6), Dommonique (5), Domunique (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Dominique in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 7 | #623 | #538 |
| Ohio | 10 | #817 | #540 |
| Georgia | 9 | #936 | #524 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #953 | #847 |
| Texas | 20 | #1,108 | #737 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,133 | #635 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,166 | #1,008 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,323 | #634 |
| New York | 6 | #1,620 | #1,902 |
| Florida | 5 | #1,907 | #1,123 |
| California | 7 | #2,044 | #1,389 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51 | #3,140 | 121 | #1,468 |
| 2024 | 70 | #2,537 | 123 | #1,473 |
| 2023 | 62 | #2,763 | 141 | #1,341 |
| 2022 | 82 | #2,279 | 135 | #1,382 |
| 2021 | 91 | #2,090 | 173 | #1,156 |
| 2020 | 88 | #2,084 | 170 | #1,145 |
| 2019 | 100 | #1,950 | 171 | #1,137 |
| 2018 | 122 | #1,694 | 192 | #1,057 |
| 2017 | 139 | #1,572 | 209 | #983 |
| 2016 | 157 | #1,467 | 213 | #968 |
| 2015 | 137 | #1,589 | 237 | #911 |
| 2014 | 144 | #1,519 | 221 | #953 |
| 2013 | 201 | #1,194 | 255 | #838 |
| 2012 | 214 | #1,152 | 279 | #804 |
| 2011 | 208 | #1,172 | 271 | #811 |
| 2010 | 288 | #907 | 248 | #855 |
| 2009 | 278 | #961 | 296 | #772 |
| 2008 | 376 | #780 | 288 | #772 |
| 2007 | 386 | #757 | 275 | #788 |
| 2006 | 458 | #628 | 275 | #764 |
| 2005 | 543 | #531 | 304 | #683 |
| 2004 | 587 | #501 | 311 | #655 |
| 2003 | 673 | #446 | 328 | #624 |
| 2002 | 829 | #361 | 379 | #576 |
| 2001 | 1,043 | #304 | 367 | #567 |
| 2000 | 1,264 | #259 | 422 | #525 |
| 1999 | 1,664 | #185 | 409 | #520 |
| 1998 | 2,159 | #146 | 457 | #479 |
| 1997 | 2,670 | #118 | 652 | #374 |
| 1996 | 2,547 | #122 | 718 | #346 |
| 1995 | 2,278 | #140 | 918 | #287 |
| 1994 | 2,389 | #132 | 1,238 | #239 |
| 1993 | 2,705 | #122 | 1,449 | #207 |
| 1992 | 2,885 | #116 | 1,786 | #180 |
| 1991 | 2,406 | #132 | 1,869 | #170 |
| 1990 | 1,946 | #153 | 1,485 | #207 |
| 1989 | 1,641 | #173 | 1,233 | #221 |
| 1988 | 1,905 | #145 | 1,029 | #234 |
| 1987 | 2,444 | #114 | 684 | #312 |
| 1986 | 2,944 | #98 | 523 | #360 |
| 1985 | 3,299 | #83 | 384 | #435 |
| 1984 | 1,254 | #209 | 406 | #410 |
| 1983 | 454 | #454 | 318 | #468 |
| 1982 | 450 | #469 | 253 | #541 |
| 1981 | 393 | #507 | 129 | #770 |
| 1980 | 315 | #588 | 124 | #786 |
| 1979 | 327 | #563 | 122 | #782 |
| 1978 | 294 | #583 | 101 | #855 |
| 1977 | 293 | #589 | 122 | #770 |
| 1976 | 283 | #580 | 99 | #839 |
| 1975 | 193 | #745 | 90 | #876 |
| 1974 | 212 | #694 | 85 | #869 |
| 1973 | 206 | #710 | 73 | #944 |
| 1972 | 167 | #809 | 58 | #1,063 |
| 1971 | 158 | #855 | 46 | #1,219 |
| 1970 | 156 | #860 | 43 | #1,267 |
| 1969 | 132 | #923 | 44 | #1,189 |
| 1968 | 137 | #880 | 31 | #1,405 |
| 1967 | 145 | #835 | 23 | #1,619 |
| 1966 | 116 | #946 | 23 | #1,623 |
| 1965 | 97 | #1,064 | 19 | #1,825 |
| 1964 | 114 | #1,003 | 19 | #1,863 |
| 1963 | 76 | #1,263 | 13 | #2,340 |
| 1962 | 49 | #1,610 | 11 | #2,555 |
| 1961 | 41 | #1,791 | 9 | #2,950 |
| 1960 | 38 | #1,838 | 5 | #4,177 |
| 1959 | 37 | #1,828 | — | — |
| 1958 | 43 | #1,635 | 12 | #2,401 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,752 | 7 | #3,325 |
| 1956 | 26 | #2,165 | — | — |
| 1955 | 22 | #2,353 | 6 | #3,596 |
| 1954 | 23 | #2,257 | — | — |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,761 | 5 | #3,954 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,706 | 5 | #3,868 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,144 | — | — |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,043 | 7 | #3,107 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,435 | — | — |
| 1920 | — | — | 6 | #3,937 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,642 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).