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Dominique

girls’ name · 68%boys’ name · 32%FadedCompare

Dominique is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 70 births. Its best rank was 83rd, in 1985.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
700.00% of girls
Peak year
19853,299 births
Best rank
#83in 1985
Since 1949
74,165people given the name
Babies named Dominique, by year of birthgirlsboys
01.3k2.5k3.8k5k18801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

50,730 girls have been named Dominique in the United States since 1949, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1985, with 3,299 births — 0.19% of all girls recorded that year.

The name has all but left use: 70 births in 2024, against 3,299 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1992, and the 1990s alone account for 47%. It has spent 45 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 2 of them in the top 100.

Dominique is used for both sexes: 32% of its bearers are boys (23,435), most of them born around 1991.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadegirls named Dominique
1940s5
1950s208
1960s945
1970s2,289
1980s15,099
1990s23,649
2000s6,436
2010s1,709
2020s390

In 1985, its biggest year

Dominique was the 83rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1985 were Jessica, Ashley, Jennifer, Amanda and Sarah. See all of 1985.

Names that rose and fell with Dominique

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.