Names of Dominican Republic

DO

Dominican Republic — Nombres más comunes registrados 2022-2023 records María as the commonest given name in the Dominican Republic; the names that most distinguish the Dominican Republic from the rest of the world are Altagracia, Antonio and Manuel.

Written in Spanish.

Population
10M
Official registers
2
Name forms recorded
22K
BBuilt from 2 official registers (2023), 21,722 name forms in our corpus, 3 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

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Where the names most characteristic of Dominican Republic are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Dominican Republic included.

Dominican girl and boy names

The commonest names given to girls and to boys, as Dominican Republic — Nombres más comunes registrados 2022-2023 published them for 2023. The full register tables, with their counts, are further down.

How names work in Dominican Republic

Names in Dominican Republic follow one naming tradition. Its structure, its given-name and surname stock, how to address someone and what trips software up are set out on its own page.

The most common names in Dominican Republic

Counts everyone resident in the country · authority tier 2
Dominican Republic — Nombres más comunes registrados 2022-2023, 2023 — 15 given names counted over residents, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1María6.3K—
2Ana3.7K—
3Rosa1.9K—
4Elizabeth1.1K—
5Santa997—
6Carmen947—
7Luz929—
8Ruth922—
9Juana9159
10Katherine898—
11Marie882—
12Génesis868—
13Carolina853—
14Luisa79516
15Daniela794—

Where the two lists disagree

13 of Dominican Republic — Nombres más comunes registrados 2022-2023's top 15 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

Dominican Republic — Nombres más comunes registrados 2022-2023 2023Across all recordsmaría: 1 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country1. maríanot rankedana: 2 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country2. ananot rankedrosa: 3 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country3. rosanot rankedelizabeth: 4 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country4. elizabethnot rankedsanta: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. santanot rankedcarmen: 6 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country6. carmennot rankedluz: 7 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country7. luznot rankedruth: 8 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country8. ruthnot rankedjuana: 9 → 99. juana9katherine: 10 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country10. katherinenot rankedmarie: 11 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country11. marienot rankedgénesis: 12 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country12. génesisnot rankedcarolina: 13 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country13. carolinanot rankedluisa: 14 → 1614. luisa16daniela: 15 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country15. danielanot ranked
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
Dominican Republic — Nombres más comunes registrados 2022-2023, 2023 on the left; every record we hold for Dominican Republic on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of Dominican Republic

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Dominican Republic holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

AltagraciaAntonioManuelRafaelSanRamonMercedesMiguelSantiagoAntoniaJuanaRamonaMiguelinaFelixDomingoFranciscaJosefinaEmilioEstherLuisa
Sized by how much of the difference between Dominican Republic's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.(measured from records)

Scripts & spelling

Rodriguezsurname(measured from records)
Antoniogiven name(measured from records)
Perezsurname(measured from records)
Cruzsurname(measured from records)
Altagraciagiven name(measured from records)
The best-attested names in Dominican Republic, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-10-12.

Questions

What is the most common given name in Dominican Republic?
María, according to Dominican Republic — Nombres más comunes registrados 2022-2023 (2023), with 6,325 bearers recorded among girls.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Dominican Republic?
Because they count different people. Dominican Republic — Nombres más comunes registrados 2022-2023 (2023) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is María. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Antonio. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Dominican Republic”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/DO (data snapshot 2026-10-12). Official figures from Dominican Republic — Nombres más comunes registrados 2022-2023.