Dominga
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Forme espagnole de Dominique, du latin dominicus « du Seigneur »
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dominɡa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dominga is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In the Dominican Republic it is the 22nd most common given name.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 585(inferred from the name graph)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 727
- ARArgentina≈1 in 1.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 212 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 585 (inferred from the name graph)
≈41,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Forme espagnole de Dominique, du latin dominicus « du Seigneur ».
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dominga 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #630 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 26K | Dominga | 40 |
| AR Argentina | #299 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 14 | Dominga | 50 |
| PE Peru | #360 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Dominga | 38 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #22 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 585 | — | Dominga | 23 |
| VE Venezuela | #320 | 9,865 | 1 in 2.9K | 9.9K | Dominga | 20 |
| NI Nicaragua | #56 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 727 | — | Dominga | 10 |
| PY Paraguay | #187 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Dominga | 21 |
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: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996). 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)
Dominga is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Spanish form of Dominic/Dominicus
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Spanish: feminine form of Domingo (see DOMINIC ).
as a word
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)
- Dominga Ortizb. 1792VEthree-time First Lady of Venezuela, wife of José Antonio Páez
- Isabel de Borbón y Borbónb. 1851ESnot in their usual nameSpanish princess; eldest daughter of Queen Isabella II and Francis, Duke of Cádiz
- María Dominga Guzmánb. 1897Puerto Rican nun (1897-1993)
- Beatriz Pérez Lópezb. 1901MXnot in their usual nameMexican politician
- Dominga Neculmánb. 1937CLmapuche ceramist (1937–2022)
- Domingab. 1946ITItalian singer
- Lucía Dominga Molina Sándezb. 1949AR(1949– ), Afro-Argentine activist and president of the first organization of Afro-Argentines outside of Buenos Aires
- Dominga Sotomayor Castillob. 1985CLChilean filmmaker
- MingasMZnot in their usual nameMozambican singer. Born in the capital city, Maputo in Mozambique.
- Minguita PadillaPHnot in their usual namePhilippine ophthalmologist and politician
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)
Attested in 52 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 9.9K | #198 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 14 | #1,809 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2014 | 3 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 1 | — |
| PH Philippines | Tagalog given names (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Dominga?
- A machine transcription gives /dominɡa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Dominga mean?
- Recorded meaning: Forme espagnole de Dominique, du latin dominicus « du Seigneur ».
- Is Dominga a male or female name?
- Dominga is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Dominga?
- In the etymology graph, Dominika, Domenica and Dominica are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Dominga have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 41 thousand people named Dominga in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dominga.
- How common is the name Dominga?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 9,865 people named Dominga, about 1 in 2.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Dominga compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Dominga is the 630th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/domingaThe 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, “Dominga” — the 630th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.