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Dominic

From the Latin for "of the lord", the English spelling of the Polish Dominik. Barely 1,300 men carry it and fewer boys get it each year, so most Poles have never met one.

Dominic Pronunciation

Dominic is pronounced do-MEE-nyeets (/dɔˈmiɲit͡s/).

Alive in 2025
1,267
Newborns 2025
3
National rank
#862

What Dominic means

Where Dominic comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Dominic comes from the Latin Dominicus, built on dominus, the word for lord. The short meaning stays close to that root: of the lord. In the Middle Ages a child born on a Sunday, the dies Dominica or Lord's day, was sometimes given the name for exactly that reason.

The most documented bearer is Saint Dominic, the Castilian priest who founded the Order of Preachers in 1216. His followers are still called Dominicans. That single life pulled the name across Catholic Europe, and it reached Poland along the same road.

Here it becomes Dominik. The feminine form is Dominika, and the short diminutive Domino turns up among friends. On the eighth of August the imieniny falls, and a Dominik hears his name read out at a small ceremony. The meaning underneath has not moved: należący do Boga, belonging to the Lord.

How many people are named Dominic

1 in 16848 men in Poland is named Dominic. 1,267 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #862 among male names.

People with the name Dominic 2019 → 2025
1,267 +470 since 2019
2020 851 +54
2021 895 +44
2022 979 +84
2023 1,074 +95
2024 1,173 +99
2025 1,267 +94

Dominic's popularity over time

3 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1227 among newborns. It has been stable for a decade. Still the #862 name among living men, even as it slips to #1227 among newborns.

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3 newborns with the name Dominic in 2025
national rank #1227 that year

Where Dominic is most popular

Dominic is most popular in Warmian-Masurian, 320% above the national average (6 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Subcarpathian (+67%) and Lower Silesian (+60%). It is least common in Masovian and Kuyavian-Pomeranian, 15% and 8% below average respectively.

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Dominic as a middle name

Dominic is a first name for 1,267 men in Poland and a middle name for another 273, an 82/18 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 427th, between Santiago (276) and Elias (273).

As a first name
1,267
As a middle name
273
first name 82% middle name 18%
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