Dominique
Dominique is given to both girls and boys: 51 girls and 121 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,140 among girls’ names and #1,468 among boys’, #2,442 among all names counting both); 74,343 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Dominique every year since 2011.
An estimated 72,100 Americans named Dominique and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 28 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dominique by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dominique mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dominique is “a female given name from French.”
Also “a male given name from French.”
From French Dominique. Doublet of Dominic.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dominique?
#3,140 among girls’ names, 2025
Dominique fell from #1,589 in 2015 to #3,140 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 76.7 to 31.7 per million.
4,671 babies in 1992, the peak
Dominique peaked in 1992, when 4,671 babies were given it (2,885 girls, #116 among girls’ names). The 172 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 4% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| 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 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | #1,618 |
| 1966 | 116 | #946 | 23 | #1,622 |
| 1965 | 97 | #1,064 | 19 | #1,824 |
| 1964 | 114 | #1,003 | 19 | #1,862 |
| 1963 | 76 | #1,263 | 13 | #2,339 |
| 1962 | 49 | #1,609 | 11 | #2,554 |
| 1961 | 41 | #1,790 | 9 | #2,949 |
| 1960 | 38 | #1,837 | 5 | #4,176 |
| 1959 | 37 | #1,827 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 43 | #1,634 | 12 | #2,400 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,751 | 7 | #3,324 |
| 1956 | 26 | #2,164 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 22 | #2,352 | 6 | #3,595 |
| 1954 | 23 | #2,256 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,760 | 5 | #3,951 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,705 | 5 | #3,866 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,143 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,041 | 7 | #3,106 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,433 | under 5 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 6 | #3,935 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 5 | #2,641 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Dominique a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 74,343 Americans recorded as Dominique, 68% are girls and 32% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dominique: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dominique, and how old are they?
72,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 74,343 Americans ever recorded as Dominique. The median Dominique alive today is 33 years old; half are between 28 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 62,492 people named Dominique (44,407 women and girls, 18,085 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 71,497 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 516 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,010 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 44,900 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 18,900 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,780 |
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 Dominique born?
The states with the most babies named Dominique are Texas, Florida and Ohio, with 42% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 20 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 10 | #2,246 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 10 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 10 | #1,518 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 9 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 7 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| South Carolina | 7 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 6 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 6 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Tennessee | 6 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Dominique is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dominique is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1912 it was given 2.7 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 Dominique 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 89,233 babies since 1880, Dominique is the most given (83% of them). In 2025 it was given to 172 of their 183 babies (94%), 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 Dominique
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 Dominique and names like it
- Compare Dominique and DomoniqueBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDominique peaked in 1992.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dominique since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Dominique: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Dominique.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Dominique alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.