Domenico

Where Domenico comes from

Domenico 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. 1448
    Domenico Ghirlandaio born
    Italian Renaissance painter from Florence
  2. 1685
    Domenico Scarlatti born
    Italian composer, son of Alessandro Scarlatti
  3. 1906
    Debut at its peak, #798
    #798 among boys with 10 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  4. 1907
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Domenico Ghirlandaio · Italian Renaissance painter from Florence, 1448–1494
  • Domenico Scarlatti · Italian composer, son of Alessandro Scarlatti, 1685–1757
  • Domenico Modugno · Italian singer, actor and politician, 1928–1994
  • Domenico Cimarosa · Italian opera composer of the Neapolitan school, 1749–1801
  • Domenico Berardi · Italian association football player, born 1994

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.