Given name & surname · also Late Latin
Dominic
“a lord”
Dominic is used as a given name and a surname. One Latin interpretation is “a lord.”
Original LatinDominicus
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “a lord.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Late Latin.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1885. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dominic through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 194,676
- 193,424 boys · 1,252 girls
- Most popular year
- 2013
- 6,352 babies
- 2025
- 3,282
- #106 for boys · #15,530 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −27%
- Easing
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 3,277 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 106 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 27.1% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6,336 in 2013. It also appeared in 5 birth records for girls in 2025. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (560). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 145,027 as a first name in 2020; 1,217 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.
Dominic’s family of names
In English usage, Dominic has a diminutive in Dom. Dominic shares a linguistic root with Dominique. In English usage, Dominic has a related form in Dominick.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Dominic has relatives in 58 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Dominic comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 22
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 52
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- DominicusLatin
- Domingocognate · Spanish
- Dominicafeminine form
- Dominikeequivalent
- DomingosPortuguese, Galician
- DominykasLithuanian
- Dominikusequivalent
- Дамінікequivalent
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- Minikeequivalent
- DedëAlbanian
- DodëAlbanian
- Txominrelated form · Basque
- Domonkosrelated form · Hungarian
- Domokosequivalent
- ĐaminhVietnamese
- Đa MinhVietnamese
- ДомінікUkrainian
- โดมินิกThai
- డొమినిక్Telugu
- டோமினிக்Tamil
- DominikoSwahili, Esperanto
- ඩොමිනික්Sinhala
- DumìnicaSicilian
- DumìnicuSicilian
- ДоминикSerbo-Croatian, Mongolian
- Домини́кRussian
- ਡੌਮੀਨਿਕPunjabi
- დომინიკxmf, Georgian
- डॉमिनिकMarathi
- ഡൊമിനിക്Malayalam
- DominiksLatvian
- ໂດມິໜິກlo
- 도미닉Korean
- ដូមីនិកKhmer
- ಡೊಮಿನಿಕ್Kannada
- ドミニクJapanese
- DamhlaicIrish
- DamhnaicIrish
- DóminikIcelandic
- डोमिनिकHindi
- דומיניקHebrew
- ડોમિનિકGujarati
- ΔομήνικοςGreek
- 多米尼克Mandarin, nan-hbl
- DomènecCatalan
- ডমিনিকBengali
- Даміні́кBelarusian
- DominixBasque
- ԴոմինիկոսArmenian
- دومينيكArabic
- ዶሚኒክAmharic
- Domengecognate
See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Dominic
- Dominic MonaghanGerman-born British actorborn 1976
- Dominic Purcellactorborn 1970
- Dominic RaabBritish politician (born 1974)
- Dominic Calvert-LewinEnglish association football player (born 1997)
- Dominic CooperBritish actorborn 1978
- Dominic ThiemAustrian male tennis playerborn 1993
- Dominic WestBritish actorborn 1969
- Dominic SolankeEnglish association football player (born 1997)
- Dominic SavioItalian saint (1842-1857)
Characters named Dominic: Dominic Toretto (The Fast and the Furious series).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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Tóibín
Tóibín is a surname from Anglo-Norman, ultimately from Latin. It is used in Irish.
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