Dàvīd
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dàvīd is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 6th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Middle English David, Davyd, Davyde, from Old English Dauid, David, from Latin David, Davidus, from Koine Greek Δαυίδ (Dauíd), Δαβίδ (Dabíd), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew דּוד (Dāwîḏ, literally.
- CZCzechia1 in 53(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 65
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 77
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Dàvīd itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #10 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 732 (measured from records)
- 1 in 53 (inferred from the name graph)
2,813,017 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled David in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 5 more and Davit in GE Georgia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Middle EnglishDavid(measured from records)
- Old EnglishDauid(measured from records)
- LatinDavid(measured from records)
- Koine GreekΔαυίδDauíd(measured from records)
- Biblical HebrewדּודDāwîḏ“beloved”(measured from records)
From Middle English David, Davyd, Davyde, from Old English Dauid, David, from Latin David, Davidus, from Koine Greek Δαυίδ (Dauíd), Δαβίδ (Dabíd), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew דּוד (Dāwîḏ, literally “beloved”).
Sources 17
- A concise dictionary of first names
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Russian Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dàvīd counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #6 | 2,813,017 | 1 in 118 | 2.8M | David | 732 |
| GB United Kingdom | #2 | ≈1,000,000 est. | ≈1 in 65 | 342 | David | 517 |
| NG Nigeria | #20 | ≈810,000 est. | ≈1 in 264 | listed | David | 190 |
| ID Indonesia | #72 | ≈620,000 est. | ≈1 in 428 | listed | David | 259 |
| CA Canada | #5 | ≈420,000 est. | ≈1 in 91 | 76 | David | 418 |
| AU Australia | #4 | ≈290,000 est. | ≈1 in 86 | 3 | David | 427 |
| CZ Czechia | #7 | 202,622 | 1 in 53 | 203K | David | 223 |
| GE Georgia | #4 | 68,105as დავით | 1 in 59 | 68K | Davit | 160 |
| NZ New Zealand | #3 | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 77 | — | David | 252 |
2,813,017 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); MVČR — living population register 2017. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dàvīd mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English David, Davyd, Davyde, from Old English Dauid, David, from Latin David, Davidus, from Koine Greek Δαυίδ (Dauíd), Δαβίδ (Dabíd), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew דּוד (Dāwîḏ, literally… Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 15 other sources.
- Is Dàvīd a male or female name?
- Dàvīd 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.
- In which country does Dàvīd have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.8 million people named Dàvīd, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled david.
- Where is Dàvīd most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dàvīd is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 53 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dàvīd?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,813,017 people named Dàvīd in 2020, about 1 in 118 residents.
- How common is Dàvīd compared with other names?
- In the United States, Dàvīd is the 6th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C3%A0v%C4%ABdThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dàvīd” — the 6th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.