girls:
5 births since 2019
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
99 births since 2003
#4487 (2nd percentile)
overall:
104 births since 2003
#7635 (1st percentile)
The name Dominion is the #7,635 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 104 recorded births since 2003. This represents the 1.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,487 (2.1% percentile) for all time with 99 births since 2003. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2019.
Dominion first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2003 (2003 for boys and 2019 for girls). Birth data for Dominion is available in 12 out of the 21 years between 2003 and 2023 (12 years for boys and 1 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 Dominion has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Dominion reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #907) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Dominion ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 67.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Dominion reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #945) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dominion".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Dominion. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 82.9% confident that Dominion is pronounced as duh-MIH-nyuhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is duh-MIH-nee-uhn, at 9.8% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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