Dominica
Dominica was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,655 among girls’ names; 2,338 Americans have been recorded with it since 1909 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,790 Americans named Dominica and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 27 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dominica by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dominica mean?
Wiktionary, Latin section
Dominica is “a female given name” Its etymology gives the sense “Lord’s Day, day of the Lord, Sunday” (Dominica).
Ellipsis of diēs Dominica (“Lord’s Day, day of the Lord, Sunday”), used for the island of Dominica since it was sighted by Christopher Columbus on a Sunday.
[dɔˈmɪ.nɪ.ka]
Meaning: Wiktionary, Latin section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dominica?
#13,655 among girls’ names, 2025
Dominica fell from #8,120 in 2015 to #13,655 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.8 to 3.7 per million.
56 babies in 1979, the peak
Dominica peaked in 1979, when 56 girls were given it, #1,881 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,655 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,495 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,525 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,876 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,614 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,087 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,489 | 10.7 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,491 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,555 | 8.7 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,105 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (110)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,120 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,408 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,308 | 11.4 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,900 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,765 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,025 | 12.4 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,375 | 11.4 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,811 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,161 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,659 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,613 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,416 | 12.5 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,573 | 15.3 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,799 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,124 | 16.7 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,828 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,734 | 18.0 |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,365 | 20.4 |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,049 | 22.4 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,746 | 16.5 |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,104 | 21.0 |
| 1994 | 43 | #2,802 | 24.1 |
| 1993 | 41 | #2,891 | 22.7 |
| 1992 | 43 | #2,785 | 23.3 |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,666 | 24.0 |
| 1990 | 47 | #2,529 | 24.8 |
| 1989 | 55 | #2,197 | 29.8 |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,749 | 21.3 |
| 1987 | 48 | #2,241 | 27.6 |
| 1986 | 49 | #2,152 | 28.6 |
| 1985 | 50 | #2,112 | 29.1 |
| 1984 | 39 | #2,436 | 23.2 |
| 1983 | 40 | #2,363 | 23.9 |
| 1982 | 37 | #2,545 | 21.9 |
| 1981 | 39 | #2,455 | 23.4 |
| 1980 | 56 | #1,916 | 33.7 |
| 1979 | 56 | #1,881 | 34.9 |
| 1978 | 27 | #2,954 | 17.6 |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,016 | 17.0 |
| 1976 | 33 | #2,449 | 22.5 |
| 1975 | 32 | #2,469 | 21.9 |
| 1974 | 27 | #2,696 | 18.4 |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,849 | 16.5 |
| 1972 | 15 | #3,941 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 21 | #3,193 | 12.6 |
| 1970 | 31 | #2,410 | 17.7 |
| 1969 | 23 | #2,782 | 13.6 |
| 1968 | 28 | #2,318 | 17.1 |
| 1967 | 31 | #2,132 | 18.8 |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,073 | 10.0 |
| 1965 | 24 | #2,485 | 13.6 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,560 | 7.4 |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,802 | 10.4 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,063 | 8.6 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,009 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,865 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,729 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,025 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 10 | #3,997 | 4.9 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,453 | 3.0 |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,951 | 2.6 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,872 | 3.5 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,337 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,078 | 4.5 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,150 | 4.6 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,577 | 5.7 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,237 | 6.7 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,570 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,019 | 7.9 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,404 | 4.6 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,983 | 8.2 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,994 | 8.5 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,559 | 10.6 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,333 | 12.4 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,454 | 11.5 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,435 | 11.9 |
| 1932 | 16 | #2,054 | 15.0 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,456 | 11.3 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,337 | 12.4 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,339 | 12.5 |
| 1928 | 19 | #1,972 | 16.5 |
| 1927 | 21 | #1,900 | 17.6 |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,945 | 16.9 |
| 1925 | 17 | #2,212 | 14.0 |
| 1924 | 18 | #2,161 | 14.4 |
| 1923 | 24 | #1,744 | 19.9 |
| 1922 | 25 | #1,695 | 20.8 |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,312 | 13.0 |
| 1920 | 20 | #1,965 | 16.7 |
| 1919 | 24 | #1,661 | 21.2 |
| 1918 | 25 | #1,610 | 21.6 |
| 1917 | 16 | #2,128 | 14.8 |
| 1916 | 33 | #1,252 | 31.6 |
| 1915 | 20 | #1,694 | 20.3 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,155 | 14.4 |
| 1913 | 10 | #2,062 | 16.0 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,014 | 16.1 |
| 1911 | 13 | #1,325 | 31.1 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,209 | 15.1 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,289 | 14.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dominica a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dominica has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 110 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dominica: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dominica, and how old are they?
1,790 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 77% of the 2,338 Americans ever recorded as Dominica. The median Dominica alive today is 38 years old; half are between 27 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 2,189 people named Dominica (2,157 women and girls, 32 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,799 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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 | 42 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 100 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 439 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 661 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 379 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 165 |
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 Dominica born?
The states with the most babies named Dominica are New York, California and Texas, with 80% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 217 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| California | 133 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 36 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 22 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Massachusetts | 19 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Mexico | 16 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 16 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Florida | 13 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Louisiana | 8 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
Where Dominica is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dominica is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 1.2 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 girls’ 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 Dominica 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 6,479 babies since 1880, Dominica is the second most given (36% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 26 babies (23%), again the second 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 Dominica
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 Dominica and names like it
- Compare Dominica and DomenicaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDominica peaked in 1979.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dominica since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Dominica: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Dominica.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Dominica alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.