Dominik

What Dominik means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Dominik yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Down from #646 in 2015 to #984 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Dominik?

US: Falling: down from #646 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #235 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2012, when 533 boys got the name (#499 that year). First in the US records in 1916.

How common

• About 1 in 7,362 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 3,442 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 4,910 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NV (0.71 per 1,000 boys), IL (0.32 per 1,000 boys), MI (0.3 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Dominik is #984 in the US and #487 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Dominik were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Dominic3,277 US · 246 E&W
• Dominick448 US · 3 E&W
• Domingo74 US
• Domenic60 US
• Domonic18 US
• Domenick18 US
• Dominiq6 US
• Domonick5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Dominik

Boys

• Brayden#229Variant of Braden, meaning “descendant of Bradán”^*
• Isaac#47“he laughs, he will laugh”^*
• Xavier#108Editor’s note Down from #90 in 2015 to #108 in 2025 in the US
• Jackson#36Editor’s note Down from #17 in 2015 to #36 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 260 US boys in the 2025 records
• Jayden#70Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #20 in 2015, #70 in 2025
• Luke#33Editor’s note Down from #28 in 2015 to #33 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 250 US boys in the 2025 records

For a sister

• Gabriella#105Editor’s note Down from #54 in 2015 to #105 in 2025 in the US
• Isabella#7Form of Isabel, meaning “my God is an oath”^*
• Brooklyn#118“wetland, marsh”^*
• Chloe#23“young green shoot”^*
• Emma#3“entire”^*
• Lilly#252Form of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Dominik’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.