Dominque — unisex name

What the Data Says About Dominque

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,872 babies named Dominque between 1965 and 2013, spanning 49 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Dominque currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2013. The name reached its historical peak in 1985, when 314 babies received it in a single year. Dominque is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,410 additional births since 1968.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dominque performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 1,802 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Dominque shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 401 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Dominque in 27 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dominque in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,872 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.