Dominique
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
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
By decade
| Decade | girls named Dominique | |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | |
| 1950s | 208 | |
| 1960s | 945 | |
| 1970s | 2,289 | |
| 1980s | 15,099 | |
| 1990s | 23,649 | |
| 2000s | 6,436 | |
| 2010s | 1,709 | |
| 2020s | 390 |
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.
- Domoniquepeak 1986
- Catlinpeak 1991
- Teairapeak 1992
- Tierapeak 1993
- Tierrapeak 1993
- Caitlinpeak 1988
- Jessikapeak 1990
- Shainapeak 1988
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.