Dominicus
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Latin dominicus 'belonging to the Lord'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dominit͡ʃus/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dominicus is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Indonesia.
- TZTanzania
- NLNetherlands
- IDIndonesia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Latin dominicus 'belonging to the Lord'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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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)
Dominicus is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, of or belonging to a lord or master
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Domizio Calderinib. 1446ITnot in their usual nameItalian humanist
- Dominicus Custosb. 1560BEFlemish artist, printer and copperplate engraver (1560-1612)
- Dominicus Baudiusb. 1561NLDutch historian and poet
- Dominicus Arumaeusb. 1579NLDutch lawyer (1579-1637)
- Dominicus Germanus de Silesiab. 1588PLorientalist, explorer, missionary (1588-1670)
- Domenicus van der Smissenb. 1704DEnot in their usual nameGerman painter (1704–1760)
- Albert Dominicus Trip van Zoudtlandtb. 1776NLDutch general
- R. D. Cuttsb. 1817USnot in their usual nameUnion Army officer and civil servant
- Jan Vermuntb. 1957NLnot in their usual nameDutch educationalist
- Dominicus of Grado and Veniceauthor
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 17 sources across 10 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Dominicus mean, and where does it come from?
- from Latin dominicus 'belonging to the Lord' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What are other forms of the name Dominicus?
- In the etymology graph, Domingo, Dominic and Domingos are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Dominicus?
- A machine transcription gives /dominit͡ʃus/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- Is Dominicus a male or female name?
- Dominicus is a male 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.
- In which country does Dominicus have the most bearers?
- Dominicus is most frequently recorded in Indonesia.
What do you want to know about Dominicus?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dominicusThe 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, “Dominicus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.