Davï
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Davï is a given name 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.
- 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)
- Sources
- 235 (measured from records)
- 1 in 242 (inferred from the name graph)
876,593 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
- 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.
Sources 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Nordic Names
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Davï 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #159 | 876,593 | 1 in 242 | 877K | Davi | 203 |
| US United States | — | 3,192 | 1 in 104K | 2.5K | Davi | 235 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Davi | 30 |
| PT Portugal | #899 | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 18K | listed | Davi | 51 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 126K | 6 | Davi | 39 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Davi | 11 |
| GY Guyana | #149 | 65 | 1 in 12K | 65 | Davi | 4 |
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Davï 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.
- Is Davï a male or female name?
- Davï 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 Davï have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 877 thousand people named Davï, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled davi.
- Where is Davï most common?
- Davï is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 242 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Davï?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 876,593 people named Davï in 2022, about 1 in 242 residents.
- How common is Davï compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Davï is the 159th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dav%C3%AFThe 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, “Davï” — the 159th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.