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Daoud

#7,292 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Dawud

Daoud has been given to 283 babies in the U.S. since 1958. In 2025 it ranked #7,292 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Daoud, 2025

1 in 301,000

Daoud over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Daoud: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Dawud

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Daoud means

Daoud is a alternate transcription of Dawud.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Daoud → Dawud → David. The family’s meaning is “beloved”, recorded in English with the source elements dāwiḏ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dawud.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 283 boys were recorded with the name Daoud between 1958 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2019; its best national rank was #4,071 in 1958.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,912 in 2020 to #7,292 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,606 in 2015 to #7,292 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Daoud?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,292
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Daoud sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Daoud. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Daouds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Daoud was born before 2006 — so the typical Daoud is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
26.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
283
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2010s — 26.9% of all recorded uses (76).

Is Daoud rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,888
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,620
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+314
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.10×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
68.8%
Peak was 2019 (16)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,071
1958

Spellings of Daoud

Daoud is not the most common spelling — David is, with 99.0% against Daoud's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Daoud is used

Across 1910–2025, Daoud was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,220,640 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Daoud has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Daoud around the world

Where Daoud ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    1949–2025
    #717
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Daoud by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,292
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,620
Best rank ever
#4,071
1958
Peak year
2019
16 that year
First recorded
1958
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
283
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Daoud

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Daoud

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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