Domenica

Where Domenica comes from

Domenica hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1898
    First appearance
    #1,502 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1914
    Peak, #802
    52 babies named Domenica — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1934
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,834.
  4. 1945
    Domenica Niehoff born
    German dominatrix, prostitute and activist
  5. 1992
    Domenica Žuvela born
    Croatian singer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Domenica Niehoff · German dominatrix, prostitute and activist, 1945–2009
  • Domenica Žuvela · Croatian singer, born 1992
  • Domenica Lombardy · basketball player from Brazil, born 1996
  • Domenica Spinelli · Italian politician, born 1969

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.