girls:
3.9k births since 1965
#2775 (51st percentile)
boys:
2.4k births since 1968
#2577 (44th percentile)
overall:
6.3k births since 1965
#3430 (56th percentile)
The name Dominque is the #3,430 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,282 recorded births since 1965. This represents the 55.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 55.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,775 (51.4% percentile) for all time with 3,872 births since 1965. For boys, it ranks #2,577 (43.8% percentile) for all time with 2,410 births since 1968.
Dominque first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1965 (1965 for girls and 1968 for boys). Birth data for Dominque is available in 57 out of the 59 years between 1965 and 2023 (53 years for boys and 47 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 Dominque has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (61.6% of all recorded births). In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Dominque were girls. Interestingly, until around 2006, the name was more popular for girls (63.0% girls from 1965 to 2005), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (66.7% boys from 2006 to 2023).
For girls, Dominque reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 36.4% percentile (ranked #509) with 170 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 170 births per million (ranked 36.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2013.
For boys, Dominque reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 28.3% percentile (ranked #552) with 113 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 113 births per million (ranked 28.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Dominque ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 2.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dominque".
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Our model has identified 10 different pronunciations for the name Dominque. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 23.8% confident that Dominque is pronounced as DAH-mih-NEEK, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAH-mih-neek, at 21.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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