Domenico
Domenico was given to 56 boys in 2025, #2,425 among boys’ names; 3,829 Americans have been recorded with it since 1906 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,100 Americans named Domenico and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (81% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 15 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Domenico by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Domenico mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Domenico is “a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Dominic” Its etymology gives the sense “Lord” (Dominus).
From Late Latin Dominicus, derived from Dominus (“Lord”).
/doˈme.ni.ko/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Domenico?
#2,425 among boys’ names, 2025
Domenico fell from #2,238 in 2015 to #2,425 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 31.3 to 32.8 per million.
70 babies in 1974, the peak
Domenico peaked in 1974, when 70 boys were given it, #981 among boys’ names. The 56 births of 2025 are 80% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #2,425 | 32.8 |
| 2024 | 41 | #3,007 | 23.8 |
| 2023 | 50 | #2,623 | 29.2 |
| 2022 | 65 | #2,221 | 37.2 |
| 2021 | 59 | #2,326 | 33.7 |
| 2020 | 64 | #2,168 | 37.1 |
| 2019 | 55 | #2,433 | 30.7 |
| 2018 | 51 | #2,517 | 28.1 |
| 2017 | 53 | #2,425 | 28.6 |
| 2016 | 55 | #2,370 | 29.0 |
Every recorded year (109)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 60 | #2,238 | 31.3 |
| 2014 | 62 | #2,181 | 32.3 |
| 2013 | 49 | #2,496 | 25.9 |
| 2012 | 56 | #2,301 | 29.5 |
| 2011 | 67 | #2,023 | 35.3 |
| 2010 | 51 | #2,437 | 26.6 |
| 2009 | 54 | #2,384 | 27.2 |
| 2008 | 70 | #2,009 | 34.3 |
| 2007 | 55 | #2,347 | 26.5 |
| 2006 | 54 | #2,324 | 26.3 |
| 2005 | 62 | #2,008 | 31.0 |
| 2004 | 58 | #2,053 | 29.2 |
| 2003 | 57 | #2,010 | 28.9 |
| 2002 | 48 | #2,200 | 24.7 |
| 2001 | 58 | #1,892 | 29.9 |
| 2000 | 59 | #1,816 | 30.0 |
| 1999 | 57 | #1,761 | 29.7 |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,019 | 24.6 |
| 1997 | 57 | #1,708 | 30.2 |
| 1996 | 36 | #2,258 | 19.0 |
| 1995 | 60 | #1,560 | 31.5 |
| 1994 | 44 | #1,896 | 22.8 |
| 1993 | 45 | #1,850 | 22.9 |
| 1992 | 49 | #1,729 | 24.5 |
| 1991 | 47 | #1,720 | 23.3 |
| 1990 | 49 | #1,662 | 23.9 |
| 1989 | 35 | #2,036 | 17.5 |
| 1988 | 35 | #1,883 | 18.3 |
| 1987 | 34 | #1,870 | 18.2 |
| 1986 | 43 | #1,543 | 23.4 |
| 1985 | 39 | #1,624 | 21.1 |
| 1984 | 32 | #1,770 | 17.7 |
| 1983 | 33 | #1,719 | 18.4 |
| 1982 | 42 | #1,492 | 23.1 |
| 1981 | 28 | #1,958 | 15.6 |
| 1980 | 55 | #1,242 | 30.8 |
| 1979 | 49 | #1,325 | 28.5 |
| 1978 | 45 | #1,374 | 27.4 |
| 1977 | 37 | #1,521 | 22.5 |
| 1976 | 45 | #1,324 | 28.7 |
| 1975 | 45 | #1,286 | 28.8 |
| 1974 | 70 | #981 | 44.5 |
| 1973 | 51 | #1,153 | 32.7 |
| 1972 | 54 | #1,113 | 33.3 |
| 1971 | 65 | #1,009 | 36.8 |
| 1970 | 46 | #1,228 | 24.8 |
| 1969 | 48 | #1,130 | 26.8 |
| 1968 | 32 | #1,372 | 18.4 |
| 1967 | 47 | #1,076 | 27.0 |
| 1966 | 35 | #1,288 | 19.6 |
| 1965 | 33 | #1,338 | 17.7 |
| 1964 | 31 | #1,413 | 15.6 |
| 1963 | 31 | #1,406 | 15.3 |
| 1962 | 26 | #1,554 | 12.6 |
| 1961 | 22 | #1,748 | 10.4 |
| 1960 | 17 | #1,992 | 8.0 |
| 1959 | 21 | #1,769 | 9.8 |
| 1958 | 17 | #1,969 | 8.0 |
| 1957 | 18 | #1,904 | 8.3 |
| 1956 | 14 | #2,191 | 6.6 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,625 | 4.9 |
| 1953 | 8 | #2,971 | 4.1 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,725 | 4.6 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,847 | 4.5 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,804 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 9 | #2,574 | 5.5 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,549 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,308 | 4.2 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,004 | 5.1 |
| 1941 | 7 | #2,944 | 5.7 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,581 | 4.3 |
| 1939 | 7 | #2,901 | 6.3 |
| 1936 | 15 | #1,823 | 14.5 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,255 | 11.1 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,155 | 6.7 |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,788 | 16.4 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,684 | 5.5 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,351 | 11.2 |
| 1928 | 19 | #1,779 | 17.2 |
| 1927 | 19 | #1,821 | 16.9 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,203 | 7.2 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,029 | 14.3 |
| 1924 | 22 | #1,688 | 19.4 |
| 1923 | 27 | #1,436 | 24.6 |
| 1922 | 25 | #1,517 | 23.0 |
| 1921 | 21 | #1,721 | 19.1 |
| 1920 | 26 | #1,470 | 24.4 |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,642 | 21.4 |
| 1918 | 25 | #1,456 | 24.7 |
| 1917 | 41 | #1,021 | 44.3 |
| 1916 | 34 | #1,126 | 38.2 |
| 1915 | 31 | #1,165 | 36.5 |
| 1914 | 27 | #1,107 | 41.2 |
| 1913 | 28 | #935 | 54.6 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,650 | 23.3 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,060 | 48.7 |
| 1910 | 13 | #882 | 66.9 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,255 | 38.9 |
| 1906 | 10 | #807 | 75.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Domenico a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Domenico has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 109 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Domenico: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Domenico, and how old are they?
3,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 81% of the 3,829 Americans ever recorded as Domenico. The median Domenico alive today is 28 years old; half are between 15 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 4,252 people named Domenico (9 women and girls, 4,243 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,856 born in the U.S. The Census count is 49% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 17 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 178 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 670 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 619 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 895 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 715 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Domenico born?
The states with the most babies named Domenico are New York, New Jersey and California, with 75% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 912 | #1,147 | 3.3× |
| New Jersey | 353 | #668 | 3.1× |
| California | 218 | #1,721 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 197 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 144 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Rhode Island | 44 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Florida | 42 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Massachusetts | 30 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 27 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Connecticut | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Domenico is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Domenico is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 3.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Domenico with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,273 babies since 1880, Domenico is the most given (90% of them). In 2025 it was given to 56 of their 64 babies (88%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Domenico
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Domenico and names like it
- Compare Domenico and DominicoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDomenico peaked in 1974.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Domenico since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Domenico: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1974The year the most babies were named Domenico.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Domenico alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.