Daví

surname · Latin script

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

/dabi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Daví is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil 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.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 242(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 104K
  • GYGuyana1 in 12K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

876,593 people, 2022

Sources
235 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 242 (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Davi in BR Brazil, US United States, CO Colombia 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)

Derivation of Daví: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Daví
  1. Old Galician-PortugueseDavi(measured from records)
  2. LatinDāvīd(measured from records)
  3. Ancient GreekΔαυίδDauíd(measured from records)
  4. Hebrewדּוד(measured from records)

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

Sources 4

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

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Daví 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 Daví is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#159876,5931 in 242877KDavi203
US United States—3,1921 in 104K2.5KDavi235
CO Colombia—≈950 est.≈1 in 52K—Davi30
PT Portugal#899≈570 est.≈1 in 18KlistedDavi51
IT Italy—≈500 est.≈1 in 126K6Davi39
DO Dominican Republic—≈130 est.≈1 in 84K—Davi11
GY Guyana#149651 in 12K65Davi4

876,593 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)

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

  • Italian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, United Kingdom, Spain

    Also written Davì, Davi, Davi', Davī, Davï

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Dávi, Davi, Dâvi, Davì

  • Czech given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, United States

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Davi, Dávi, Davì, Dáví

  • Danish given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Davi, Dåvi, Davì

  • French given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Congo - Kinshasa, Brazil

    Also written Davi, Davì, Davî, Dāvi, Dávi

  • Swahili given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Kenya, India, South Africa

    Also written Davi, Davì

  • Croatian given name20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, United States, Bulgaria, United Kingdom

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Davy, Davi, Davì, Дави

7 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(measured from records)

1850190019502000Amadeu Aragay i Davi, b. 1886Pius Daví i Segalés, b. 1891Carlota Gurt i Daví, b. 1976

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalEstimado Sr. Daví,Dear Mr Daví, (English)
InformalHola Daví,Hi Daví, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.

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.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Daví 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.
How do you pronounce Daví?
A machine transcription gives /dabi/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Daví have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 877 thousand people named Daví, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled davi.
Where is Daví most common?
Daví is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 242 people carrying it.
How common is the name Daví?
In Brazil, the national register counted 876,593 people named Daví in 2022, about 1 in 242 residents.
How common is Daví compared with other names?
In Brazil, Daví is the 159th most common given name of 474,894 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, “Daví” — the 159th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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