Dominguez

surname · Latin script

Meaning: ‘son of Domingo’, from the Spanish male personal name Domingo, from Late Latin Dominicus ‘of the Lord’

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Dominguez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the 27th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 266(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 319
  • HNHonduras≈1 in 335

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.

Spain (measured from records)

156,940 people

#264 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
484 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 222 (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

DominguezLatin(measured from records)
ДомингесCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Domìnguez in UY Uruguay.

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)

‘son of Domingo’, from the Spanish male personal name Domingo, from Late Latin Dominicus ‘of the Lord’.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Dominguez 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.

Where Dominguez is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain#27156,9401 in 319157KDominguez236
AR Argentina#43123,3101 in 369123KDominguez145
US United States#317119,3041 in 2.8K119KDominguez484
PE Peru#109≈36,000 est.≈1 in 876—Dominguez99
VE Venezuela#164≈32,000 est.≈1 in 904—Dominguez93
HN Honduras#39≈28,000 est.≈1 in 335—Dominguez47
PY Paraguay#48≈27,000 est.≈1 in 266—Dominguez52
UY Uruguay—15,2421 in 22215KDomìnguez72

156,940 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Dominguez is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Philippines

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Domínguez

  • a separate name8 spellings in the group

    Also written Domingue-Z, Dominguéz, Domínguez, Domìnguez, Domińguez

  • Estonian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Finland, Peru

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Domínguez

  • Swedish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Denmark, Sweden

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Domínguez

  • Czech surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, United States, Spain

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Dominguèz, Domínguez

  • Croatian surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Argentina, Philippines

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Ďömïngüëž, Domínguez

  • Romanian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Philippines, Peru

    Also written Döminguez, Domínguez

56 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Dominguez 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 Filipino, a surname from Spanish, equivalent to Spanish Domínguez, common in Metro Manila, Cavite and Rizal

    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)

1940196019802000Patrice Dominguez, b. 1950Michael L. Dominguez, b. 1953David Delfín, b. 1970Alejandro Domínguez, b. 1972José Dominguez, b. 1974Ramon Dominguez, b. 1976Alejandro Damián Domínguez, b. 1981Matt Dominguez, b. 1989Alan Benítez, b. 1994Violet Rain, b. 1999

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 43 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Dominguez
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—157K#23
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—157K#23
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—123K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010119K#254
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020117K#260
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200084K#334
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—15K—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Dominguez mean, and where does it come from?
‘son of Domingo’, from the Spanish male personal name Domingo, from Late Latin Dominicus ‘of the Lord’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
In which country does Dominguez have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 157 thousand people named Dominguez, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dominguez.
Where is Dominguez most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dominguez is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 222 people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Dominguez?
In Spain, the national register counted 156,940 people named Dominguez, about 1 in 319 residents.
How common is Dominguez compared with other names?
In Spain, Dominguez is the 27th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Dominguez” — the 27th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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