Primarily a boy's name · 99% boys
Origin: DutchDominic, Dominik or Dominick is a male given name common among Roman Catholics and other Latin-Romans. Originally from the late Roman-Italic name "Dominicus", its translation means "Lordly", "Belonging to God" or "of the Master".
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Dominic yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
6,335 births, #68 nationally — Dominic's high point on both fronts, set in 2013. From there, a 47% retreat over ten years brought it to 3,290 births and #108 by 2024.
Records for this name begin just five years into the dataset, back in 1885; 191,358 births have been recorded under it since.
Lost's Dominic Monaghan, philosopher Ivan Illich, and UK minister Dominic Raab have essentially nothing in common besides sharing this name across three completely unrelated fields of work.
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Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1885 | 6 | #860 |
| 1887 | 5 | #968 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,008 |
| 1890 | 7 | #828 |
| 1891 | 6 | #872 |
| 1892 | 10 | #699 |
| 1894 | 6 | #983 |
| 1895 | 10 | #704 |
| 1896 | 14 | #558 |
| 1897 | 14 | #559 |
| 1898 | 9 | #758 |
| 1899 | 9 | #732 |
| 1900 | 14 | #686 |
| 1901 | 13 | #570 |
| 1902 | 24 | #416 |
| 1903 | 21 | #453 |
| 1904 | 25 | #419 |
| 1905 | 29 | #394 |
| 1906 | 32 | #380 |
| 1907 | 33 | #390 |
| 1908 | 49 | #314 |
| 1909 | 55 | #312 |
| 1910 | 53 | #348 |
| 1911 | 121 | #232 |
| 1912 | 217 | #238 |
| 1913 | 258 | #233 |
| 1914 | 362 | #219 |
| 1915 | 469 | #220 |
| 1916 | 530 | #207 |
| 1917 | 505 | #219 |
| 1918 | 552 | #227 |
| 1919 | 536 | #226 |
| 1920 | 536 | #234 |
| 1921 | 553 | #237 |
| 1922 | 533 | #245 |
| 1923 | 582 | #226 |
| 1924 | 487 | #258 |
| 1925 | 542 | #242 |
| 1926 | 463 | #264 |
| 1927 | 417 | #275 |
| 1928 | 378 | #290 |
| 1929 | 396 | #279 |
| 1930 | 377 | #294 |
| 1931 | 376 | #285 |
| 1932 | 320 | #308 |
| 1933 | 277 | #324 |
| 1934 | 242 | #353 |
| 1935 | 288 | #320 |
| 1936 | 265 | #338 |
| 1937 | 260 | #337 |
| 1938 | 232 | #370 |
| 1939 | 248 | #355 |
| 1940 | 233 | #373 |
| 1941 | 256 | #365 |
| 1942 | 301 | #349 |
| 1943 | 268 | #374 |
| 1944 | 237 | #395 |
| 1945 | 234 | #394 |
| 1946 | 297 | #380 |
| 1947 | 283 | #407 |
| 1948 | 314 | #384 |
| 1949 | 311 | #383 |
| 1950 | 303 | #386 |
| 1951 | 336 | #373 |
| 1952 | 295 | #403 |
| 1953 | 355 | #364 |
| 1954 | 357 | #375 |
| 1955 | 384 | #370 |
| 1956 | 392 | #378 |
| 1957 | 440 | #367 |
| 1958 | 429 | #374 |
| 1959 | 439 | #377 |
| 1960 | 440 | #377 |
| 1961 | 444 | #376 |
| 1962 | 433 | #387 |
| 1963 | 502 | #347 |
| 1964 | 587 | #322 |
| 1965 | 499 | #340 |
| 1966 | 471 | #344 |
| 1967 | 536 | #322 |
| 1968 | 544 | #327 |
| 1969 | 604 | #310 |
| 1970 | 631 | #312 |
| 1971 | 584 | #321 |
| 1972 | 583 | #315 |
| 1973 | 632 | #287 |
| 1974 | 645 | #290 |
| 1975 | 678 | #283 |
| 1976 | 752 | #260 |
| 1977 | 1,049 | #212 |
| 1978 | 965 | #221 |
| 1979 | 1,031 | #221 |
| 1980 | 1,020 | #232 |
| 1981 | 1,013 | #231 |
| 1982 | 1,058 | #223 |
| 1983 | 1,058 | #216 |
| 1984 | 1,239 | #195 |
| 1985 | 1,333 | #187 |
| 1986 | 1,366 | #187 |
| 1987 | 1,335 | #197 |
| 1988 | 1,398 | #195 |
| 1989 | 1,471 | #198 |
| 1990 | 1,628 | #188 |
| 1991 | 1,967 | #164 |
| 1992 | 2,442 | #137 |
| 1993 | 2,534 | #133 |
| 1994 | 2,769 | #128 |
| 1995 | 2,507 | #138 |
| 1996 | 2,669 | #135 |
| 1997 | 2,928 | #129 |
| 1998 | 3,098 | #120 |
| 1999 | 3,097 | #118 |
| 2000 | 3,246 | #118 |
| 2001 | 3,635 | #106 |
| 2002 | 4,855 | #83 |
| 2003 | 5,219 | #81 |
| 2004 | 4,879 | #91 |
| 2005 | 4,994 | #85 |
| 2006 | 5,577 | #85 |
| 2007 | 5,415 | #85 |
| 2008 | 4,964 | #93 |
| 2009 | 5,329 | #81 |
| 2010 | 5,300 | #74 |
| 2011 | 5,438 | #77 |
| 2012 | 6,187 | #70 |
| 2013 | 6,335 | #68 |
| 2014 | 6,263 | #69 |
| 2015 | 5,870 | #68 |
| 2016 | 5,427 | #72 |
| 2017 | 5,110 | #74 |
| 2018 | 4,794 | #75 |
| 2019 | 4,441 | #85 |
| 2020 | 4,017 | #89 |
| 2021 | 3,753 | #99 |
| 2022 | 3,586 | #102 |
| 2023 | 3,412 | #106 |
| 2024 | 3,290 | #108 |
