girls:
267 births since 1929
#5449 (5th percentile)
boys:
66.2k births since 1881
#410 (91st percentile)
overall:
66.4k births since 1881
#898 (88th percentile)
The name Dominick is the #898 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 66,434 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 88.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #410 (91.1% percentile) for all time with 66,167 births since 1881. For girls, it ranks #5,449 (4.6% percentile) for all time with 267 births since 1929.
Dominick first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for boys and 1929 for girls). Birth data for Dominick is available in 140 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023 (140 years for boys and 31 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Dominick has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Dominick reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 75.9% percentile (ranked #211) with 794 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 847 births per million (ranked 75.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2006, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Dominick ranks #484 for boys (46.9% percentile) with 287 births per million, which is 33.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Dominick reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #803) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2012.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dominick".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Dominick", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 24 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Dominic" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Dominic..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Dominick. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.3% confident that Dominick is pronounced as DAH-muh-nihk, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAH-mih-nihk, at 14.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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