Dominick
The story
Dominick is Dominic with an extra letter and its own long American paper trail. The root is the Late Latin Dominicus, of the Lord, a name traditionally given to a child born on Sunday. The K-spelling has been in the record every decade since the 1890s, and its early curve is steep: 166 boys that first decade, 3,915 in the 1910s, 5,289 in the 1920s. It then held a steady middle for half the century, roughly three thousand a decade, before a second climb to 8,985 in the 1990s and 15,277 in the 2000s, with 3,371 so far this decade. Not many names produce two separate rises eighty years apart. A Sunday name that learned to work weekdays, and the record shows it never really left the building.
Dominick around the world
One shared root links 6 names across 4 languages.
Shared root: from Latin Dominicus "belonging to the Lord", once given especially to Sunday's children
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Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Dominick peaked in the 2000s and the 2010s in nearly equal measure.
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Popularity in Brazil
1,592 people · the #6,015 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 125,000 · median age 4
Among people named Dominick living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 2010s than in any other decade.
The census also counted 760 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
How the spellings raced
Across these spellings, Dominic led in the group’s busiest decade, the 2010s. So far in the 2020s, Dominic leads.
Decade totals from US Social Security birth registrations. Every line uses the same scale. The 2020s covers 2020–2025.
When you meet Dominick
Most people given the name Dominick in the United States are teenagers or young adults today.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Dominick deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Dominick truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Dominick fits with your family’s names and surname.
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