Domingo

Boy · Latin

Domingo

Say it: doh-MEEN-goh

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Meaning

From Latin dominicus 'of the Lord', also the Spanish word for Sunday.

Certainscholars agree on this meaning.

Its wave through time

Most used in the 1920s

In the United States

13,979 babies given this name since 1882
At its height in 1928, about 1 in 6,800 boys
80 babies in 2020

Through the ages

Used by

Argentine Caribbean Spanish Andean

The family of the name

Portuguese	Domingos
Italian	Domenico

Famous bearers

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, president of Argentina

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Where this comes from

Parish baptism registers
United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.

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