Dominick
- Pronunciation
- [Do-mi-nick]
- Gender
- Male
- Meaning
- "Variant Of Dominic, Belonging To The Lord"
- Origin
- Latin
About the Name Dominick
Dominick is a modern American spelling variant of Dominic (see separate entry on Dominic for the Latin Dominicus etymology meaning "belonging to the Lord" or "of the Lord" — referring originally to children born on Sunday, the Lord's Day). The Domin-ick spelling Dominick is essentially a 20th-21st century American variant.
The two spellings (Dominick and Dominic) are tracked separately by SSA and represent the same underlying Latin name. The Dominick spelling specifically appeals to parents seeking a more visually distinctive form than the historical Dominic. The name is anchored by Saint Dominic (1170–1221), the Spanish founder of the Dominican Order of Catholic friars (the "Order of Preachers").
Notable bearers using either spelling include American actor Dominic West (born 1969, the iconic British-American actor of HBO's The Wire 2002–2008); American actor Dominic Monaghan (born 1976, the British-American actor of The Lord of the Rings trilogy and ABC's Lost); American basketball player Dominique Wilkins (using Dominique, the related French form); and contemporary American basketball player Dominick Henry. Dominick has been continuously used in American naming for over a century, particularly in Italian-American and Catholic communities. The name climbed into the US top 200 boys' rank by 2014 and the top 300 since. The name's appeal sits in three contemporary American naming preferences: the layered Latin-Catholic-Saint Dominic pedigree, the in-built distinctive religious-historical sophistication, and the popular three-syllable -ick ending. Three flowing syllables, soft consonants, and tonal versatility from rural-American to upwardly-mobile-American. The name reads as both classical-Catholic and contemporary American. Common nicknames Dom (the dominant warm short form, casual and warm), Domi, Nick (back-end shortening, a popular standalone name on its own), and the rare Dome each carry distinct registers; the alternate spellings Dominic, Dominick, Domenico (Italian), Domingo (Spanish), and Dominique (French) have their own SSA tracking. International forms include Domenico (Italian), Domingo (Spanish/Portuguese), Dominique (French), and the original Latin Dominicus.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Dominick
US Popularity History (2000–2025)
Annual US births named Dominick by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2003 with 1,780 boys named Dominick (boy rank #205 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2025, ranked #622 for boys (448 US births). That's 417 places below its 2003 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Dominick Most Popular?
Average boy-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's boys-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Dominick the strongest states are Delaware, New York, New Jersey.
Strongest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Delaware | #173 | 28 |
| 2 | New York | #237 | 783 |
| 3 | New Jersey | #238 | 356 |
| 4 | Connecticut | #308 | 99 |
| 5 | West Virginia | #309 | 24 |
| 6 | New Mexico | #334 | 39 |
| 7 | Pennsylvania | #364 | 289 |
| 8 | Illinois | #369 | 302 |
| 9 | Florida | #392 | 444 |
| 10 | Nevada | #399 | 56 |
Weakest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tennessee | #727 | 73 |
| 2 | Georgia | #726 | 89 |
| 3 | Alabama | #702 | 23 |
| 4 | Washington | #645 | 103 |
| 5 | Minnesota | #644 | 56 |
| 6 | Oklahoma | #637 | 36 |
| 7 | North Carolina | #619 | 134 |
| 8 | South Carolina | #618 | 39 |
| 9 | Missouri | #613 | 85 |
| 10 | Ohio | #590 | 171 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Dominick in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
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Compare Dominick to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Dominick against today's most popular boys-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).