Domingos

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Domingos is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name120K records spelled Domingos17 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, United Kingdom, Germany

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Domingoes, Dömïngös, Dömingös, Domïngös, Domíñgôs

• French given name22K records spelled Domingos4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, Portugal

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Dominģos, Domîngos

• Russian surname597 records spelled Domingos10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Angola, Ukraine, Spain

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Домингуш, Домингос, Домінгос, Дамінгас

• Finnish given name450 records spelled Domingos3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland

  Also written Domìngos

55 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Domingos is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In osp, a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Dominic

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Asturian, plural of domingu

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• João Domingos Bomtempob. 1775PTPortuguese musician (1775-1842)
• Domingos Oliveirab. 1873PTPortuguese politician (1873-1957)
• Domingos da Guiab. 1912BRBrazilian footballer and manager (1912-2000)
• Domingos Simoes Pereirab. 1963GWPrime Minister of Guinea-Bissau
• Domingos Paciênciab. 1969PTPortuguese football player/manager
• Domingos Chanb. 1970CNMacau professional football player
• Ricardo Domingos Barbosa Pereirab. 1993PTPortuguese association football player (born 1993)
• Domingos Duarteb. 1995PTPortuguese association football player
• Domingos Quinab. 1999GWassociation football player
• Domingos André Ribeiro Almeidab. 2000PTassociation football player

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 146 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Domingos?

We estimate roughly 102 thousand people bear Domingos (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Domingos have the most bearers?

We estimate about 101 thousand people bear Domingos in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled domingos.

How common is Domingos compared with other names?

In Brazil, Domingos is the 232nd most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.

Is Domingos a male or female name?

Domingos is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.