Dominga

Where Dominga comes from

Dominga hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1792
    Dominga Ortiz born
    three-time First Lady of Venezuela, wife of José Antonio Páez
  2. 1894
    First appearance
    #1,485 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1925
    Peak, #727
    102 babies named Dominga — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1936
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #968.
  5. 1985
    Dominga Sotomayor Castillo born
    Chilean filmmaker
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Dominga Sotomayor Castillo · Chilean filmmaker, born 1985
  • Dominga Ortiz · three-time First Lady of Venezuela, wife of José Antonio Páez, 1792–1875
  • Dominga Neculmán · mapuche ceramist, 1937–2022

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.