Is Dominique a male or female name?
Dominique is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 68% and male usage in France at 59%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- male
- Probability
- 54%
- Sample size
- 500,832
- Confidence
- high
Dominique by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| France FR | male | 59% | 409,980 | insee |
| United States US | female | 68% | 74,152 | ssa |
| Switzerland CH | female | 53% | 10,757 | bfs |
| Canada CA | female | 75% | 3,348 | statcan |
| England and Wales GB | female | 94% | 1,009 | ons |
| Spain ES | female | 67% | 590 | ine |
| Austria AT | female | 66% | 580 | statat |
| Poland PL | male | 52% | 349 | pesel |
| Ireland IE | female | 100% | 67 | cso |
Attested in 39 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AT · AU · BE · BF · BI · BJ · CA · CD · CF · CG · CH · CI · CM · DE · DJ · ES · FR · GA · GB · GN · HT · IE · IN · LI · LU · MC · MG · ML · MU · NE · PL · RW · SC · SE · SN · TD · TG · US · VU
Dominique over time
In the United States, 83.1% of the babies named Dominique in the 1950s were girls, against 34.5% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born. In France, 7.4% of the babies named Dominique in the 1900s were girls, against 9.5% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | — | 7% | 3,195 | |
| 1910s | — | 6% | 2,610 | |
| 1920s | — | 9% | 3,570 | |
| 1930s | — | 18% | 5,205 | |
| 1940s | — | 45% | 34,355 | |
| 1950s | 83% | 249 | 48% | 188,880 |
| 1960s | 83% | 1,141 | 37% | 133,370 |
| 1970s | 73% | 3,128 | 29% | 29,955 |
| 1980s | 75% | 20,182 | 25% | 6,130 |
| 1990s | 68% | 34,628 | 20% | 1,710 |
| 2000s | 66% | 9,680 | 15% | 600 |
| 2010s | 43% | 3,999 | 14% | 295 |
| 2020s | 34% | 1,129 | 10% | 105 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Dominique with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Dominique
Is Dominique a male or female name?
Dominique is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 68% and male usage in France at 59%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Dominique change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Dominique identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.