Domine
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Domine is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In English, recorded as Lord; master.
- ARArgentina1 in 77K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 42K
- UYUruguay1 in 100K
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
- 68 (measured from records)
- 1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)
≈720 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
inflection of dominar:
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Domine is read(measured from records)
Domine is one spelling over 3 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.
- English41%
Lord; master.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish34%
inflection of dominar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Domine in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Domine 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 | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 151K | — | Domine | 14 |
| AR Argentina | 592 | 1 in 77K | 592 | Domine | 42 |
| FR France | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 122K | 81 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 473 | 1 in 703K | 560 | Domine | 68 |
| EG Egypt | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 240K | — | Domine | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 201 | 1 in 42K | 201 | Domine | 5 |
| UY Uruguay | 34 | 1 in 100K | 34 | Domine | 4 |
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 — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Domine is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from Dutch 'pastor'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Romanian, third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of domina
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, vocative singular of dominus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, dominated
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)
- Jean Dominéb. 1927FRFrench official (1927-2007)
- Victoriano Dominéb. 1951ARArgentine association football player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 592 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 560 | #41,826 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 506 | #40,690 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 473 | #45,253 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 111 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 102 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 97 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 92 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 82 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 81 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 80 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 69 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Domine come from?
- inflection of dominar: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Domine mean?
- In English, Lord; master.
- In which country does Domine have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 724 people named Domine in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled domine.
- Where is Domine most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Domine is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 42 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Domine?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 592 people named Domine, about 1 in 77 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Domine?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/domineThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Domine”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.