Davì

Name: Davì: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024

Davì is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Galician-Portuguese Davi, from Latin Dāvīd, from Ancient Greek Δαυίδ (Dauíd), from Hebrew דּוד. Doublet of David.

CHSwitzerland1 in 138K(measured from records)
ARArgentina1 in 199K
BEBelgium1 in 279K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: United States (measured from records)
Record sources: 98 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 59K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Davi in US United States.

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

Davì

Old Galician-PortugueseDavi(measured from records)
LatinDāvīd(measured from records)
Ancient GreekΔαυίδDauíd(measured from records)
Hebrewדּוד(measured from records)

From Old Galician-Portuguese Davi, from Latin Dāvīd, from Ancient Greek Δαυίδ (Dauíd), from Hebrew דּוד. Doublet of David.

Cited for this meaning 4

The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Wiktionary
Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Nordic Names

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Davì 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 Davì is recorded, by country
Country				Most common spelling	Sources
US United States	1,277	1 in 260K	2.5K	Davi	98
IT Italy	≈1,100 est.	≈1 in 59K	6	Davì	77
ES Spain	282	1 in 177K	342	Davì	5
AR Argentina	229	1 in 199K	229	—	—
CH Switzerland	61	1 in 138K	61	—	4

1,277 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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

Davì is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Portuguese given name40 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Argentina, Colombia
Languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish
Also written Davi, Daví, D'Avi, Daevi, Davi'
Hindi given name13 spellings in the group
Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Italy
Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu
Also written Davi, দেবি, Dävi, Dâví, Daví
a separate name5 spellings in the group
Also written Dávi, Davi, Dâvi, Daví
French given name10 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, United States, Congo - Kinshasa, Brazil
Also written Davi, Davî, Daví, Dāvi, Dávi
Turkish given name5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Syria, Italy
Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani
Also written Davi, Daví
Russian surname10 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Türkiye
Languages: Russian, Ukrainian
Also written Дави, Даві, Davi, Давй
Croatian given name20 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Netherlands, United States, Bulgaria, United Kingdom
Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian
Also written Davy, Davi, Дави, Daví

8 further groups 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.

Notable people with this name

Angelo Davìb. 1949ITItalian jurist (1949-)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence

4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Davì
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
CH Switzerland	BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)	2024	8	#72,019

Reference works 1

Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Davì mean, and where does it come from?: From Old Galician-Portuguese Davi, from Latin Dāvīd, from Ancient Greek Δαυίδ (Dauíd), from Hebrew דּוד. Doublet of David. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
In which country does Davì have the most bearers?: In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Davì, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled davi.
How common is the name Davì?: In the United States, the national register counted 1,277 people named Davì in 2010, about 1 in 260 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dav%C3%AC

The 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 2026-10-13 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, “Davì”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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