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Daouda

#7,293 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Dawud

Daouda has been given to 146 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #7,293 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Daouda, 2025

1 in 301,000

Daouda 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Daouda: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Dawud

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Daouda means

Daouda is a form of Dawud.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Daouda → 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, 146 boys were recorded with the name Daouda between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2025; its best national rank was #7,293 in 2025.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,971 in 2015 to #7,293 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 Daouda?

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
#7,293
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Daouda 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 Daouda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Daoudas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Daouda was born before 2012 — so the typical Daouda is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
41.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
146
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Choose a decade

2000s — 41.8% of all recorded uses (61).

Is Daouda 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
+3,942
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,678
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.83×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (11)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,293
2025

Spellings of Daouda

Daouda is not the most common spelling — Dakoda is, with 66.1% against Daouda's 2.9%.

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 Daouda is used

Across 1910–2025, Daouda was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 832,740 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. Daouda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Daouda around the world

Where Daouda 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
    2007–2007
    #4,333
    in 2007
  • France
    1972–2025
    #623
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2011–2022
    #2,778
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Daouda by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,293
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#7,293
2025
Peak year
2025
11 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
146
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Daouda

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

DaoudDaonteJudaDaoYudaShenoudaDaonYehudaDauda

Sibling names for Daouda

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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