Dominika
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 31 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/dɔ.miˈɲi.ka/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Dominika is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country: 123,336 people, counted by dane.gov.pl in 2026. In Slovakia it is the 98th most common given name. Dominika is also written Доминика in Cyrillic, დომინიკა in Georgian and Δομινικα in Greek.
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 160(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 310
- CZCzechia1 in 443
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Dominika itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 201 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 163 (inferred from the name graph)
123,336 people, 2026
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovakia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Dominika in other scripts: Cyrillic, Georgian, Greek and 1 more
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Dominika
- Polish:/dɔ.miˈɲi.ka/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Czech:/ˈdomɪnɪka/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Dominika is read
(measured from records)Dominika is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Polish57%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Dominika in Polish.
- English10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Dominika in English.
- German6.2%
weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Czech5.4%
Dominica (an island and country in the Caribbean)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dominika counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #118 | 123,336 | 1 in 310 | 123K | Dominika | 192 |
| SK Slovakia | #98 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 163 | — | Dominika | 104 |
| CZ Czechia | #185 | 24,184 | 1 in 443 | 24K | Dominika | 106 |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 344 | — | 4 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 2 | Dominika | 134 |
| IS Iceland | — | 166 | 1 in 2.1K | 166 | Dominika | 6 |
123,336 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); MVČR — living population register 2017; the de-leipzig-vornamen register; magyarnevek — given names by decade; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Dominika is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Dominika är en femininform till → Dominic. Den franska stavningen Dominique ges till både män och kvinnor.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In French, Forme slave de Dominique, du latin dominicus « du Seigneur ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In Lithuanian, Dominica (an island and country in the Caribbean; official name: Domini̇̀kos Sándrauga)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Dominikas Sadraudzība - valsts Vidusamerikā, Mazajās Antiļu salās ("Dominica"), platība - 751 kvadrātkilometrs, 72800 iedzīvotāju (2010. g.), galvaspilsēta - Rozo, administratīvais iedalījums - 10 pagastu
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Dominika Ostałowskab. 1971PLPolish actress
- Dominika Paletab. 1972PLPolish-Mexican actress
- Dominika Cibulkováb. 1989SKSlovak tennis player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)62 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 31 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Dominika a male or female name?
- Dominika is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Norway (SSB) and Hungary (magyarnevek, 1997), among others.
- Which countries have the most people named Dominika?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 123 thousand people named Dominika, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dominika. After it come Slovakia, Czechia, Hungary and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- What are other forms of the name Dominika?
- In the etymology graph, Dominga, Domenica and Dominica are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Dominika?
- It depends on the language: in Polish /dɔ.miˈɲi.ka/ (Wiktionary); in Czech /ˈdomɪnɪka/ (Wiktionary).
- How common is the name Dominika?
- In Poland, the national register counted 123,336 people named Dominika in 2026, about 1 in 310 residents.
- How common is Dominika compared with other names?
- In Poland, Dominika is the 118th most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dominika?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dominikaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dominika” — ranked 56th in Poland (dane.gov.pl). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.