Dominik
A Latin name meaning "of the lord". You almost certainly know a Dominik: around 135,000 Polish men carry it, though it's given less often with each passing year.
Dominik Pronunciation
Dominik is pronounced do-MEE-nyeek (/dɔˈmiɲik/).
What Dominik means
Where Dominik comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Dominik comes from the Latin Dominicus, formed from dominus, "lord," and it means "of the lord." The same root gave the Romance languages their word for Sunday: domenica in Italian, domingo in Spanish, both from dies Dominica, the Lord's day. So the name shares its bones with a day of the week.
Much of its spread across Europe follows one man, Saint Dominic (Dominicus, 1170 to 1221), the Castilian priest who founded the Order of Preachers, the Dominicans. Polish records carry the name for centuries after him, and it settled into the calendar. His feast is kept on 8 August, one of several dates that hold the imieniny for Dominik in Poland.
The name bends easily. Dominika serves the girls, Dominique crosses languages and gender, and Domi does the friendly work at home. Read a class register and you can find a Dominik and a Dominika in the same column.
The Polish sense, należący do Boga, "belonging to God," reads the "lord" of the origin as the Lord. That reading has held. Behind all of it sits the plain Latin: dominus, the master of the house.
How many people are named Dominik
1 in 157 men in Poland is named Dominik. 135,774 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #105 among male names.
Dominik's popularity over time
755 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #81 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Where Dominik is most popular
Dominik is most popular in Podlaskie, 88% above the national average (503 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Opole (+46%) and Silesian (+32%). It is least common in Łódź and Greater Poland, 40% and 33% below average respectively.
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Podlaskie503 boys born+88%
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Opole273 boys born+46%
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Silesian1,221 boys born+32%
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Lublin538 boys born+29%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian512 boys born+15%
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Lower Silesian725 boys born+13%
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West Pomeranian369 boys born+7%
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Warmian-Masurian311 boys born+6%
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Subcarpathian511 boys born+4%
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Lubusz198 boys born−2%
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Pomeranian571 boys born−5%
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Lesser Poland847 boys born−8%
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Masovian1,158 boys born−20%
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Świętokrzyskie159 boys born−30%
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Greater Poland587 boys born−33%
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Łódź311 boys born−40%
Dominik as a middle name
Dominik is a first name for 135,774 men in Poland and a middle name for another 57,945, a 70/30 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 52nd, between Wiesław (58,007) and Patryk (53,242).
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50
58,290Jarosław
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51
58,007Wiesław
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5257,945Dominik
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53
53,242Patryk
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54
52,728Leszek
When Dominik celebrates name day
Dominik appears 7 times in the Polish name day calendar. The main date is 9 March.