Dominique
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in French: From Latin Dominicus, from dominus “lord”; Christian name of Latin origin
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/dɔminik/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dominique is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country, where it is the 28th most common given name.
- FRFrance≈1 in 293(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 22K
- CZCzechia1 in 161as Dominik
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 Dominique 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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- #582 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 556 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 293 (inferred from the name graph)
≈230,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Dominic in US United States, DE Germany, AT Austria and 1 more and Dominik in PL Poland, CZ Czechia, HU Hungary.
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)
From Latin Dominicus, from dominus “lord”; Christian name of Latin origin.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
How Dominique is read(measured from records)
Dominique is one spelling over 2 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.
- French64%
From Latin Dominicus, from dominus “lord”; Christian name of Latin origin.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
From Latin Dominicus, ‘belonging to the Lord’
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Dominicus of the Lord, from dominus lord, master; cf. Domecq). It was borne by a Sp. saint (1170-1221) who founded the Dominican order of monks and whose fame gave an added boost to the popularity of the name, already well established because of its symbolic value. Habitation name (from i): Pol.: Otugoszewski.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- English26%
An American breed of chicken with a rose comb and a heavy plumage of irregularly striped black-and-white feathers.
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)
Dominique 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #28 | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 293 | 242K | Dominique | 422 |
| US United States | #454 | 145,027as Dominic | 1 in 2.3K | 144K | Dominic | 556 |
| PL Poland | #99 | 136,511as Dominik | 1 in 280 | 137K | Dominik | 198 |
| DE Germany | #493 | ≈95,000 est. | ≈1 in 841 | — | Dominic | 229 |
| NG Nigeria | #576 | ≈81,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Dominic | 97 |
| CZ Czechia | #67 | 66,644as Dominik | 1 in 161 | 67K | Dominik | 136 |
| HU Hungary | #240 | 29,297as Dominik | 1 in 334 | 29K | Dominik | 122 |
| AT Austria | #333 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 377 | 23K | Dominic | 105 |
| BR Brazil | — | 9,804 | 1 in 22K | 9.8K | Dominique | 126 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); MVČR — living population register 2017; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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)
Dominique 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.
Feminine form of Dominic, from a French form that is used as both a girl's and a boy’s name.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
, 2 From Late Latin. See Dominic and Dominique in main dictionary.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
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)
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingresb. 1780FRFrench painter (1780–1867)
- François Aragob. 1786FRnot in their usual nameFrench mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician (1786-1853)
- Dominique Pireb. 1910BEBelgian Dominican friar (1910–1969)
- Fats Dominob. 1928USnot in their usual nameAmerican pianist and singer (1928-2017)
- Dominique Zardib. 1930FRFrench actor (1930–2009)
- Dominique Sandab. 1951FRFrench actress
- Dominique de Villepinb. 1953FRFrench politician and diplomat; 95th Prime Minister of France
- Dominique Blancb. 1956FRFrench actress
- Dominique Wilkinsb. 1960USAmerican basketball player (born 1960)
- Hugo Llorisb. 1986FRnot in their usual nameFrench footballer (born 1986)
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 108 sources across 52 countries.
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Dominique mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Dominicus, from dominus “lord”; Christian name of Latin origin. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Dominique a male or female name?
- Dominique 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 Dominique have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 231 thousand people named Dominique in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dominique.
- How common is the name Dominique?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 9,804 people named Dominique in 2022, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Dominique compared with other names?
- In France, Dominique is the 28th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Dominique?
- A machine transcription gives /dɔminik/ (IPA) for French.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dominiqueThe 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, “Dominique” — the 28th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.