Given name & surname
Domingo
“born on a Sunday”
Domingo is used as a given name and a surname. One Spanish interpretation is “born on a Sunday.”
Original Spanishโดมิงโกฺ
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Spanish interpretation is “born on a Sunday.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Spanish.
How it developed
From Old Spanish Domingos, from Late Latin Dominicus.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1882. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Domingo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 14,400
- 14,374 boys · 26 girls
- Most popular year
- 1947
- 195 babies
- 2025
- 74
- #2,025 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +16%
- Rising
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 74 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 2,025 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 15.5% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (11). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 23,214 as a first name in 2020; 12,152 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Domingo’s family of names
In Filipino usage, Domingo has a diminutive in Domeng. Domingo shares a linguistic root with Dominic. In Spanish usage, Domingo has a conventional equivalent in the German form Dominique.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Domingo has relatives in 13 languages. Lines run from its Spanish roots to each of them.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Domínguezvariant · Spanish
- Demingovariant
- Minggoydiminutive · ceb
- Domengdiminutive · Tagalog, ceb
- Inggoclipped form · Tagalog
- Txominvariant · Basque
- Domingshort form · ceb
- Demyngovariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 14
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Domingo
- Dominic de Guzmánfounder of the Dominican Order (1170–1221)
- Domingo Faustino SarmientoArgentinian politician and writer (1811-1888)
- Domingo TejeraUruguayan footballer (1899-1969)
- Domingo Santa MaríaChilean politician and President (1825–1889)
- AméricoEstatura: 1.65 cmborn 1977
- Domingo CismaSpanish footballerborn 1982
- Domingo TarasconiArgentine association football player (1903-1991)
- Domingo CaycedoPresident of Colombia (1783-1843)
- Domingo CavalloArgentine economist and politician (born 1946)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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