Given name & surname
Domingos
Domingos is a masculine given name from Latin. It is used in Portuguese, Galician, and Old Spanish.
Original LatinDominicus
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1919. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Domingos through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 71
- 71 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1919
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 1995. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 831 as a first name in 2020; 1,120 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.
Domingos’s family of names
In Galician usage, Domingos has a diminutive in Mingos. In Portuguese usage, Domingos has a conventional equivalent in the English form Dominic. In Portuguese usage, Domingos has a conventional equivalent in Dedë.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Domingos has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Domingos comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 10
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Dominicusolder form · Latin
- DominicEnglish
- Dominikequivalent
- Domingodescendant · Spanish
- Domenicoequivalent
- Dominikusequivalent
- Domonkosequivalent
- Domingasfeminine form
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People named Domingos
- Domingos da GuiaBrazilian footballer and manager (1912-2000)
- Domingos PaciênciaPortuguese football player/managerborn 1969
- Domingos DuartePortuguese association football playerborn 1995
- Domingos Simões PereiraPrime Minister of Guinea-Bissauborn 1963
- Domingos Quinaassociation football playerborn 1999
- Domingos OliveiraPortuguese politician (1873-1957)
- Domingos PereiraPortuguese politician (1882-1956)
- Gonçalves de Magalhães, Viscount of AraguaiaBrazilian poet, playwright, physician and diplomat (1811–1882)
- André Almeidaassociation football playerborn 2000
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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