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The description for Dominic says that it is "it is primarily used by Catholics." How would that be known even? When taking statistics is religion also stated? Like is it knows what names are used primarily by Anglicans, etc.?
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My source for this is A Dictionary of First Names by Hanks and Hodges, where they say "It is used mainly by Roman Catholics, in honour of St Dominic".
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I would assume that when Hanks and Hodges make a statement like that they are referring to the United Kingdom, where they live, unless they specifically mention another country.
It is hard to get statistics by religion, but I would think the majority of men and boys named Dominic in the United States still come from a Roman Catholic background. The exception to that would be, as an earlier post states, its use in the African-American community. African-Americans are actually more religious on average than White Americans are, but of course the percentage of them who are Roman Catholic is much smaller. Only about 6% of Black Americans are Roman Catholic though that' still double the 3% who are Muslim -- a great many Black Americans who have been given Muslim names are not Muslim themselves.
It is hard to get statistics by religion, but I would think the majority of men and boys named Dominic in the United States still come from a Roman Catholic background. The exception to that would be, as an earlier post states, its use in the African-American community. African-Americans are actually more religious on average than White Americans are, but of course the percentage of them who are Roman Catholic is much smaller. Only about 6% of Black Americans are Roman Catholic though that' still double the 3% who are Muslim -- a great many Black Americans who have been given Muslim names are not Muslim themselves.
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I feel like the same holds true for Bethany too. It's listed as primarily Catholic in the database but in the United States Bethany seems to be pretty common on non-Catholics too.
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Thank you!
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I wonder if that bit should be removed from the submission, seeing as how that likely isn't the case anymore. I have known many Dominics and none of them were religious. I have seen it used a lot amongst black Americans without any religious background.
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I will revisit this. I should at least remove the word "primarily", since that is perhaps not true.
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Thank you, I guess there is no reference how the get that.
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In the United States, Dominic is a pretty common name among people of Italian descent (since it's the English form of the Italian name Domenico), and Italians are primarily Catholic. The majority of American Dominics I've met were Italian-American. Not sure about non-Italian Catholics, though.
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I agree, people of Italian background often use that name but it's not enough to make that assumption.
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Is it known** not knows.
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