Dominique
#3,130 for girls in 2025, 51 births · #1,466 for boys in 2025, 121 births
Given to girls 68.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1985 · 3,299 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 2 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 50,786since 1949
Dominique over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,130 | 51 | #1,466 | 121 |
| 2024 | #2,533 | 70 | #1,472 | 123 |
| 2023 | #2,757 | 62 | #1,340 | 141 |
| 2022 | #2,277 | 82 | #1,379 | 135 |
| 2021 | #2,085 | 91 | #1,156 | 173 |
| 2020 | #2,078 | 88 | #1,144 | 170 |
| 2019 | #1,949 | 100 | #1,136 | 171 |
| 2018 | #1,692 | 122 | #1,056 | 192 |
| 2017 | #1,572 | 139 | #983 | 209 |
| 2016 | #1,465 | 157 | #967 | 213 |
| 2015 | #1,588 | 137 | #908 | 237 |
| 2014 | #1,519 | 144 | #952 | 221 |
| 2013 | #1,192 | 201 | #838 | 255 |
| 2012 | #1,152 | 214 | #804 | 279 |
| 2011 | #1,172 | 208 | #810 | 271 |
| 2010 | #907 | 288 | #854 | 248 |
| 2009 | #961 | 278 | #771 | 296 |
| 2008 | #780 | 376 | #772 | 288 |
| 2007 | #757 | 386 | #786 | 275 |
| 2006 | #628 | 458 | #764 | 275 |
| 2005 | #531 | 543 | #683 | 304 |
| 2004 | #501 | 587 | #655 | 311 |
| 2003 | #446 | 673 | #624 | 328 |
| 2002 | #361 | 829 | #576 | 379 |
| 2001 | #304 | 1,043 | #567 | 367 |
| 2000 | #259 | 1,264 | #525 | 422 |
| 1999 | #185 | 1,664 | #520 | 409 |
| 1998 | #146 | 2,159 | #479 | 457 |
| 1997 | #118 | 2,670 | #374 | 652 |
| 1996 | #122 | 2,547 | #346 | 718 |
| 1995 | #140 | 2,278 | #287 | 918 |
| 1994 | #132 | 2,389 | #239 | 1,238 |
| 1993 | #122 | 2,705 | #207 | 1,449 |
| 1992 | #116 | 2,885 | #180 | 1,786 |
| 1991 | #132 | 2,406 | #170 | 1,869 |
| 1990 | #153 | 1,946 | #207 | 1,485 |
| 1989 | #173 | 1,641 | #221 | 1,233 |
| 1988 | #145 | 1,905 | #234 | 1,029 |
| 1987 | #114 | 2,444 | #312 | 684 |
| 1986 | #98 | 2,944 | #360 | 523 |
| 1985 | #83 | 3,299 | #435 | 384 |
| 1984 | #209 | 1,254 | #410 | 406 |
| 1983 | #453 | 454 | #468 | 318 |
| 1982 | #468 | 450 | #541 | 253 |
| 1981 | #507 | 393 | #770 | 129 |
| 1980 | #585 | 315 | #786 | 124 |
| 1979 | #562 | 327 | #782 | 122 |
| 1978 | #583 | 294 | #854 | 101 |
| 1977 | #588 | 293 | #770 | 122 |
| 1976 | #579 | 283 | #838 | 99 |
| 1975 | #745 | 193 | #875 | 90 |
| 1974 | #693 | 212 | #867 | 85 |
| 1973 | #710 | 206 | #941 | 73 |
| 1972 | #808 | 167 | #1,060 | 58 |
| 1971 | #854 | 158 | #1,214 | 46 |
| 1970 | #860 | 156 | #1,260 | 43 |
| 1969 | #923 | 132 | #1,186 | 44 |
| 1968 | #879 | 137 | #1,393 | 31 |
| 1967 | #833 | 145 | #1,609 | 23 |
| 1966 | #944 | 116 | #1,613 | 23 |
| 1965 | #1,063 | 97 | #1,806 | 19 |
| 1964 | #1,001 | 114 | #1,850 | 19 |
| 1963 | #1,262 | 76 | #2,300 | 13 |
| 1962 | #1,607 | 49 | #2,504 | 11 |
| 1961 | #1,788 | 41 | #2,900 | 9 |
| 1960 | #1,835 | 38 | #4,038 | 5 |
| 1959 | #1,820 | 37 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,630 | 43 | #2,370 | 12 |
| 1957 | #3,696 | 11 | #3,257 | 7 |
| 1956 | #2,151 | 26 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,341 | 22 | #3,505 | 6 |
| 1954 | #2,240 | 23 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,687 | 10 | #3,798 | 5 |
| 1952 | #2,671 | 16 | #3,734 | 5 |
| 1951 | #3,106 | 12 | — | |
| 1950 | #3,962 | 8 | #3,021 | 7 |
| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Dominique! It came in at #5,244, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1949, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Dominique is popular in 1981
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- District of Columbia#152 · 1 in 578
- Nevada#201 · 1 in 875
- Oregon#338 · 1 in 2,121
- Maryland#352 · 1 in 2,329
- Iowa#358 · 1 in 2,773
Best ever in a state: #19 in District of Columbia, 1985.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| District of Columbia | #152 | 10 | 1 in 578 |
| Nevada | #201 | 5 | 1 in 875 |
| Oregon | #338 | 8 | 1 in 2,121 |
| Maryland | #352 | 9 | 1 in 2,329 |
| Iowa | #358 | 7 | 1 in 2,773 |
| Arizona | #359 | 10 | 1 in 1,996 |
| California | #381 | 78 | 1 in 2,324 |
| New Jersey | #393 | 13 | 1 in 2,867 |
| Colorado | #395 | 8 | 1 in 2,596 |
| Tennessee | #399 | 9 | 1 in 3,099 |
| Louisiana | #401 | 12 | 1 in 2,552 |
| Washington | #409 | 10 | 1 in 2,761 |
| Pennsylvania | #432 | 19 | 1 in 3,650 |
| Virginia | #432 | 9 | 1 in 3,340 |
| Texas | #488 | 37 | 1 in 3,344 |
| Ohio | #495 | 15 | 1 in 4,817 |
| Michigan | #514 | 12 | 1 in 4,888 |
| Missouri | #518 | 7 | 1 in 4,583 |
| Illinois | #530 | 18 | 1 in 4,175 |
| New York | #587 | 22 | 1 in 4,606 |
| Indiana | #605 | 6 | 1 in 5,816 |
| Florida | #654 | 10 | 1 in 5,409 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Dominique
- 597 spots since 2024 (#2,533 → #3,130)
- 1,052 spots since 2020 (#2,078 → #3,130)
- 1,542 spots since 2015 (#1,588 → #3,130)
- Biggest jump: 244 spots in 1984 (#453 → #209)
- Biggest drop: 265 spots in 2011 (#907 → #1,172)
- Debuted 1949
- Peaked 1985 at #83 (3,299 births)
- Births halved by 1989, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 2 yrs · run 1985–1986
- Top 1,000: 45 yrs · run 1966–2010
- Highest: 1 in 522 girls born in 1985 were named Dominique (0.19%)
- Latest: 1 in 31,515 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 46.6% of all girls named Dominique (23,649) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2010, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #5,244 (1949) | #5,244 |
| 1950s | 208 | #1,630 (1958) | #2,730 |
| 1960s | 945 | #833 (1967) | #1,214 |
| 1970s | 2,289 | #562 (1979) | #698 |
| 1980s | 15,099 | #83 (1985) | #284 |
| 1990s | 23,649 | #116 (1992) | #137 |
| 2000s | 6,437 | #259 (2000) | #553 |
| 2010s | 1,710 | #907 (2010) | #1,421 |
| 2020s | 444 | #2,078 (2020) | #2,477 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Dominique in 1981
Top girls' names in 1981
Top boys' names in 1981
More about 1981
girls
1,668,060 girls got a published name in 1981; 1 in 4,244 of them was named Dominique, which outranked 95.8% of the 12,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,791,177 boys got a published name in 1981; 1 in 13,885 of them was named Dominique, which outranked 89.4% of the 7,289 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.