# Dominique (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/dominique/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | French |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Dom |
| US babies named this | 74,343 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 23,557 / 50,786 (68% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 860, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From French Dominique. Doublet of Dominic.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 208 | 1,172 |
| 2012 | 214 | 1,152 |
| 2013 | 201 | 1,194 |
| 2014 | 144 | 1,519 |
| 2015 | 137 | 1,589 |
| 2016 | 157 | 1,467 |
| 2017 | 139 | 1,572 |
| 2018 | 122 | 1,694 |
| 2019 | 100 | 1,950 |
| 2020 | 88 | 2,084 |
| 2021 | 91 | 2,090 |
| 2022 | 82 | 2,279 |
| 2023 | 62 | 2,763 |
| 2024 | 70 | 2,537 |
| 2025 | 51 | 3,140 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 271 | 811 |
| 2012 | 279 | 804 |
| 2013 | 255 | 838 |
| 2014 | 221 | 953 |
| 2015 | 237 | 911 |
| 2016 | 213 | 968 |
| 2017 | 209 | 983 |
| 2018 | 192 | 1,057 |
| 2019 | 171 | 1,137 |
| 2020 | 170 | 1,145 |
| 2021 | 173 | 1,156 |
| 2022 | 135 | 1,382 |
| 2023 | 141 | 1,341 |
| 2024 | 123 | 1,473 |
| 2025 | 121 | 1,468 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 16 | 1,731 |
| 2011 | 5 | 4,049 |
| 2012 | 8 | 2,969 |
| 2013 | 10 | 2,460 |
| 2014 | 7 | 3,160 |
| 2015 | 6 | 3,615 |
| 2016 | 10 | 2,547 |
| 2017 | 10 | 2,502 |
| 2018 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2019 | 3 | 5,591 |
| 2020 | 4 | 4,535 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2,942 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,645 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,891 |
| 2025 | 7 | 3,333 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 8 | 1,454 |
| 1998 | 3 | 2,901 |
| 1999 | 3 | 2,943 |
| 2000 | 3 | 3,036 |
| 2001 | 3 | 3,134 |
| 2003 | 4 | 2,857 |
| 2004 | 3 | 3,651 |
| 2005 | 5 | 2,754 |
| 2012 | 4 | 3,987 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4,747 |
| 2018 | 3 | 4,749 |
| 2019 | 4 | 3,937 |
| 2020 | 3 | 4,608 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,001 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,137 |

## People named Dominique

- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter (1780–1867)
- Dominique de Villepin, French politician and diplomat; 95th Prime Minister of France
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn, French economist
- Dominique Pire, Belgian Dominican friar (1910–1969)
- Dominique Wilkins, American basketball player (born 1960)
- Dominique Sanda, French actress
- Jean-Dominique Bauby, French journalist, author and editor with Locked-In Syndrome (1952-1997)
- Dominique Rocheteau, French association football player
- Dominique Blanc, French actress
- Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon in Napoleon's army and an important innovator in battlefield medicine (1766
- Dominique Swain, American actress
- Dominique Dunne, American actress (1959–1982)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.