Domenica
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sunday
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dəmɛnɪkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Domenica is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country.
- ECEcuador1 in 410(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 4K
- DEGermany≈1 in 87K
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 Domenica 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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 272 (measured from records)
- 1 in 410 (inferred from the name graph)
41,191 people, 2024
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Domenika in AL Albania.
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Sunday
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Domenica 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | #284 | 41,191 | 1 in 410 | 41K | Domenica | 62 |
| IT Italy | #548 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 4K | 19 | Domenica | 135 |
| US United States | — | 3,589 | 1 in 93K | 3.6K | Domenica | 272 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,264 | 1 in 167K | 1.4K | Domenica | 78 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 87K | 1 | Domenica | 75 |
| GT Guatemala | #931 | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Domenica | 10 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Domenica | 22 |
| AL Albania | — | 101as Domenika | 1 in 30K | 101 | Domenika | 9 |
41,191 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: INEC — civil registry names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); the de-leipzig-vornamen register; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)
Domenica is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Forme italienne de Dominique, du latin dominicus « du Seigneur ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In German, weibl. Vom., italienische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Consacrata al Signore
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
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)
- Maria Domenica Brun Barbantinib. 1789ITItalian Catholic nun and foundress (1789-1868)
- Domenica Monvoisinb. 1805FRFrench Italian painter
- Pia Tassinarib. 1903ITnot in their usual nameItalian soprano (1903-1995)
- Domenica Niehoffb. 1945DEGerman dominatrix, prostitute and activist (1945–2009)
- Mia Martinib. 1947ITnot in their usual nameItalian singer (1947–1995)
- Maria Domenica Michelottib. 1952SMCaptain Regent of San Marino
- Maria Domenica Meloneb. 1964ITItalian university teacher
- Nikka Costab. 1972USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer, actress and swimmer
- Maria Domenica Castelloneb. 1975ITItalian politician
- Domenica Žuvelab. 1992HRCroatian singer
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 60 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 41K | #36 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.6K | #4,951 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.4K | #7,535 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.3K | #7,076 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 247 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 35 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 20 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 19 | #611 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 17 | #4,951 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2023 | 1 | #1 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2009 | 1 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- What does the name Domenica mean, and where does it come from?
- Sunday Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Domenica?
- A machine transcription gives /dəmɛnɪkə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Domenica have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 41 thousand people named Domenica, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled domenica.
- Where is Domenica most common?
- Domenica is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 410 people carrying it.
- Is Domenica a male or female name?
- Domenica 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 Domenica?
- In the etymology graph, Dominga, Dominika and Dominica are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Domenica?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 41,191 people named Domenica in 2024, about 1 in 410 residents.
- How common is Domenica compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Domenica is the 284th most common given name of 27,061 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Domenica?
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/domenicaThe 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, “Domenica” — the 284th most common given name in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.