Dawood
surname · Latin script
Meaning: David
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dəwʊd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dawood is a surname 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.
- CZCzechia1 in 53as David(measured from records)
- GEGeorgia1 in 59as დავით
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 65as David
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 Dawood 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 named David, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia, as David
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)
David
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dawood 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 | 2,813,017as David | 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 | 202,622as David | 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Dawood is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Davi (em árabe); same as David; London
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Abu Dawud al-Sijistanib. 817IQnot in their usual name9th-century Persian Hadith compiler
- Ahmed Dawoodb. 1905PKPakistani businessman (1905–2002)
- Hussain Dawoodb. 1943PKPakistani industrialist, educationist and philanthropist
- Christine Dawoodb. 1975DEBritish-German entrepreneur
- Ismail Dawoodb. 1976GBEnglish county cricketer (born 1976)
- Abdul Samad Dawoodb. 1983PKPakistani businessman
- Suleman Dawoodb. 2004PKson of Shahzada Dawood who died in the 2023 Titan Submersible incident
- Alina Dawoodb. 2006GBdaughter of Shahzada Dawood; member of the Dawood family
- Sabrina DawoodPKPakistani educational activist and philanthropist
- Abdul Razak DawoodPKPakistani industrialist and politician
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 55 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.7K | #11,270 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #16,108 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 919 | #25,304 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Dawood mean, and where does it come from?
- David Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Dawood?
- In the etymology graph, Daud and Taavetti are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Dawood?
- A machine transcription gives /dəwʊd/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Dawood have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.8 million people named David, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Dawood most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Dawood itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Czechia's: the national register counts about 1 in 53 people named David.
- How common is the name Dawood?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,813,017 people named David in 2020, about 1 in 118 residents.
- How common is Dawood compared with other names?
- In the United States, Dawood is the 6th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dawood?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dawoodThe 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, “Dawood” — the 6th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.