Dominic
The 2025 national count puts Dominic at #106, holding steady. It has been on the books since 1885 and never mattered more than it does today; 193,424 bearers and counting.
What Dominic carries
Dominic’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Dominic, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Dominic since 1885
Dominic peaked in 2013 at #68; #106 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Dominic is most common
By share of a state's recorded boys' names, Dominic runs strongest in New Jersey at 0.39% in 2025, then Connecticut and District of Columbia.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Dominic
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Delilah
#51 in 2025
Delaney
#242 in 2025
Gabriella
#105 in 2025 · Hebrew
Cecilia
#108 in 2025 · Latin
Athena
#109 in 2025
Damian
#109 in 2025 · Greek
Juliette
#110 in 2025 · Latin
Juniper
#100 in 2025
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About Dominic
Where does Dominic rank right now?
The 2025 national count puts Dominic at #106, holding steady. Every point on the chart is the SSA's own count, back to 1885.
What is the recorded meaning of Dominic?
In our cited reference the recorded gloss is “child” (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Is there a sibling name for Dominic?
The recipe puts Delilah first, then Gabriella, on shared origin, a peak within fifteen years, matching syllables and a shared first letter. Run the sibling matcher with your own names for a list scored against them.
Get Dominic’s free Name Kit
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