So now that me and my wife are set (for now…!) on a name for our little boy coming in [name_f]September[/name_f], we’re trying to find a back up name just in case the doctors are wrong about the gender (my sister in law was recently surprised when her first girl after five boys turned out to be… A boy!)
[name_m]Dominic[/name_m] is a family name of my wife, and we had a few questions about the various feminine forms of it
[name_u]Dominique[/name_u] - I think this falls into the camp of feminisations that sound like oddly pronounced versions of male names (a la Sebastienne etc) but my wife loves the -que ending, thinks it’s very sophisticated. Thoughts?
[name_m]How[/name_m] are these to be pronounced? Because I know Italian names usually have the stress on the penultimate syllable, and that logic means both names would sound virtually the same
But for some reason I always thought the stress game on the second syllable, and I really like [name_f]DoMENica[/name_f] with this pronunciation, but this pronunciation would rule out [name_f]Dominica[/name_f] because of the country (we live in a very hispanic area and I love it here, but wouldn’t want to name my kid Mexico either!)
Are there any other feminine forms of [name_m]Dominic[/name_m]?
Also what would possible nicknames be? [name_m]Dom[/name_m] is very firm and masculine…
Where I’m from people pronounce [name_u]Dominique[/name_u] [name_f]Do[/name_f]-me-neek (do pr. as dough, me as in just me and Neek rhyming with cheek) and I’ve heard that you can pr. [name_f]Dominica[/name_f]/[name_f]Domenica[/name_f] with emphasis on any syllable you desire.
Another name you could consider is [name_f]Danica[/name_f]. Not officially a feminine form of [name_m]Dominic[/name_m], but still very similar.
[name_f]Domenica[/name_f]/[name_f]Dominica[/name_f] - I would pronounce these like the country.
What about [name_f]Dominika[/name_f]? That would lend itself to a lot of cute nn’s like [name_u]Mika[/name_u], [name_f]Mina[/name_f], [name_f]Nika[/name_f], Dinka
(dom-in-ee-kah)
[name_u]Domini[/name_u] is quite cute, but is it just a made up name? We prefer names that have a heritage of some sort. Would [name_f]Dominika[/name_f] be pronounced the same as [name_f]Dominica[/name_f]? Also I feel like she’d go through life saying, I’m [name_f]Dominika[/name_f] with a K
And I agree on the -que thing, unfortunately it has stereotypical associations like with [name_f]Monique[/name_f] (at least that was what first sprung to mind for me)
Thanks for all your feedback, great sounding board this site is
According to Behind the Name it’s pronounced like daw-mee-NEE-kah
Pretty much like [name_u]Dominique[/name_u] with an A at the end I think the K spelling lends itself to that pronunciation more than the spelling that echos the country name.
I read somewhere that [name_u]Domini[/name_u] is a diminutive of [name_f]Dominika[/name_f]. I also found variants [name_u]Dominie[/name_u], [name_u]Dominy[/name_u], [name_u]Domino[/name_u]. However, I think [name_f]Dominica[/name_f] is the best choice if you want a name with history. I think you could still use [name_f]Minnie[/name_f] as a nn or [name_f]Nica[/name_f] would be cute!
[name_f]My[/name_f] best friend is a girl called [name_u]Dominique[/name_u] (: I do live in a [name_m]French[/name_m] part of [name_f]Canada[/name_f], though.
No, [name_u]Domini[/name_u] is not a made up name: it is a Latin variation of [name_m]Dominic[/name_m]. [name_m]How[/name_m] about:
[name_f]Dominga[/name_f]
[name_u]Domino[/name_u] (I know a girl/ lady with this name, and it suits her incredibly well.)
[name_m]Dominic[/name_m] (I know this is a ‘boys’ name, but I also know a girl names [name_m]Dominic[/name_m], and it suits her really well. Not a typical unisex name at all, in that it doesn’t sound too masculine, or cutesy on a girl.)
