Dâvê

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Dâvê is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From English Dave, diminutive of David.

rarermore common
  • CACanada≈1 in 836(inferred from the name graph)
  • NZNew Zealand≈1 in 1.1K
  • NLNetherlands≈1 in 1.2K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

67,929 people, 2020

#741 (measured from records)

of 15M given names, spellings grouped

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
609 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 836 (inferred from the name graph)

Canada, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
DâvêLatin(measured from records)
데이브Hangul(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Dave in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 4 more.

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)

From English Dave, diminutive of David.

Cited for this meaning 5

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Dâvê 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.

Where Dâvê is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#32367,9291 in 4.9K68KDave609
GB United Kingdom#282≈48,000 est.≈1 in 1.4K—Dave323
CA Canada#138≈45,000 est.≈1 in 8362Dave321
PH Philippines#381≈34,000 est.≈1 in 3.2K—Dave149
NL Netherlands#184≈14,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K6.6KDave146
NZ New Zealand#148≈4,600 est.≈1 in 1.1K—Dave163
IE Ireland#176≈4,100 est.≈1 in 1.3K—Dave119

67,929 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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Dâvê is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, United Kingdom

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Dave, Davé, Dâve, Dâvë, Dåvé

1 further group 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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Dâvê under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Dâvê mean, and where does it come from?
From English Dave, diminutive of David. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 3 other sources.
Is Dâvê a male or female name?
Dâvê 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 Dâvê have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 68 thousand people named Dâvê, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dave.
How common is the name Dâvê?
In the United States, the national register counted 67,929 people named Dâvê in 2020, about 1 in 4.9 thousand residents.
How common is Dâvê compared with other names?
In the United States, Dâvê is the 323rd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.

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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, “Dâvê” — the 323rd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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