Names of Dominican Republic DO
Dominican Republic — Nombres más comunes registrados 2022-2023 records María as the commonest given name in the Dominican Republic; the names that most distinguish the Dominican Republic from the rest of the world are Altagracia, Manuel and María Altagracia.
Written in Spanish.
- Population
- 10M
- Official registers
- 3
- Name forms recorded
- 14K
At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.
The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.
How names work in Dominican Republic
Names in Dominican Republic follow one naming tradition. Its structure, its given-name and surname stock, how to address someone and what trips software up are set out on its own page.
The most common names in Dominican Republic
| # | Name | Bearers recorded | Our rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | María | 6.3K | — |
| 2 | Ana | 3.7K | — |
| 3 | Rosa | 1.9K | — |
| 4 | Elizabeth | 1.1K | — |
| 5 | Santa | 997 | — |
| 6 | Carmen | 947 | — |
| 7 | Luz | 929 | — |
| 8 | Ruth | 922 | — |
| 9 | Juana | 915 | 37 |
| 10 | Katherine | 898 | — |
| 11 | Marie | 882 | — |
| 12 | Génesis | 868 | — |
| 13 | Carolina | 853 | — |
| 14 | Luisa | 795 | — |
| 15 | Daniela | 794 | — |
Where the two lists disagree
15 of Dominican Republic — Nombres más comunes registrados 2022-2023's top 15 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.
The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.
Characteristic of Dominican Republic
Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Dominican Republic holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.
Scripts & spelling
Countries whose names look alike
Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.
Registers & sources
Official registers
Oficina Nacional de Estadística (ONE). Counts: residents. given. 15 forms. 2022–2023. Licence: Open government data.
What we know about this register
ONE infographic from civil-registry administrative records: top-15 father/mother first names + top newborn boy/girl names (national + by region) WITH counts. 60 ranked given-name rows.
Last verified 2026-07-02.
Junta Central Electoral (JCE). Counts: not recorded. given. 36 forms. 2024–2025. Licence: Free (JCE transparency).
What we know about this register
JCE annual most-registered-names release with exact counts, top-10 M+F per year, 2024 (José 2,205) + 2025. From the civil-registry authority (richer than the ONE infographic). 70 rows. Registry back-fill — parquet do-jce-names.parquet already existed unregistered. SWEEP 2026-08-06: checked specifically for a live per-name existence oracle. JCE's cédula verification (jce.gob.do) is keyed by the 11-digit cédula NUMBER, not by name — official guidance explicitly states there is no public/legal method to search a cédula by name. JCE's acta-verification portal (dataportal.jce.gob.do/sarc/) is likewise request/number-keyed, not a name-search form. No live per-name oracle found beyond the top-N/count releases already catalogued in this file.
Last verified 2026-05-28.
- Diario Libre reports on the most popular names in the Dominican Republic for 2024 according to the Junta Central Elector2024not a population count
www.diariolibre.com. Counts: not recorded. given. 10 forms. 2024. Licence: unknown.
What we know about this register
Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. Diario Libre reports on the most popular names in the Dominican Republic for 2024 according to the Junta Central Electoral.
Last verified 2026-05-11.
Cited works
Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.
- Cultural Atlasweb
- Naming customs of Hispanic Americaencyclopaedia
- Spanish naming customsencyclopaedia
About this data
Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.
Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.
Questions
- What is the most common given name in Dominican Republic?
- María, according to Dominican Republic — Nombres más comunes registrados 2022-2023 (2023), with 6,325 bearers recorded among girls.
- Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Dominican Republic?
- Because they count different people. Dominican Republic — Nombres más comunes registrados 2022-2023 (2023) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is María. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Manuel. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.
Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Dominican Republic”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/DO (data snapshot 2026-09-12). Official figures from Dominican Republic — Nombres más comunes registrados 2022-2023.