Girl · Late Latin
Dominica
Say it: doh-MIN-ih-kuh
Meaning
Late Latin dominica 'of the Lord', also used for Sunday (dies dominica).
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
An early Christian name sometimes given to girls born on Sunday; Dominika is popular in modern Poland and Slovakia.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1910s
In the United States
- 2,292 babies given this name since 1909
- At its height in 1911, about 1 in 32,200 girls
- 13 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- Ancient Rome750 BC to AD 476
- The Early Middle Ages400 to 800
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
| Italian | Domenica |
|---|---|
| French | Dominique |
| Spanish | Dominga |
| Polish | Dominika |
| Czech | Dominika |
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Where this comes from
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- Calendars of saints and name days
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- 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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