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Daud

#6,539 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Dawud

Daud has been given to 277 babies in the U.S. since 1984. In 2025 it ranked #6,539 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Daud, 2025

1 in 255,000

Daud over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Daud: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Dawud

Arabic

What Daud means

Daud is a alternate transcription of Dawud.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Daud is used in Indonesian, Malay and Tausug. Its origins include Arabic.

Daud comes through Malay Daud, Arabic دَاوُد and Hebrew דָּוִד.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dawud.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Indonesian, Daud is pronounced /ˈdaud/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 277 boys were recorded with the name Daud between 1984 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2020; its best national rank was #5,293 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,293 in 2020 to #6,539 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,560 in 2015 to #6,539 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 Daud?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,539
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Daud 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Daud. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dauds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Daud was born before 2014 — so the typical Daud is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
277
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 44.4% of all recorded uses (123).

Is Daud 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
−289
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,246
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−979
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.81×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
76.5%
Peak was 2020 (17)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,293
2020

Spellings of Daud

Daud is not the most common spelling — David is, with 62.5% against Daud'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 Daud is used

Across 1910–2025, Daud was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,600,445 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Ohio1 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. Daud has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Daud around the world

Where Daud 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
    1996–2025
    #1,613
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1998–2007
    #501
    in 2007
  • France
    2015–2015
    #6,589
    in 2015
  • Canada
    2001–2023
    #2,026
    in 2023

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

Daud by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,539
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,246
Best rank ever
#5,293
2020
Peak year
2020
17 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
277
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Daud

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

SaudDaunteDauneDaunAhmaudDaundreDauryDaudiDausonMaudDauntaeRashaudDaultonAmaudRenaudDaudaDausenAudAshaudDaughtryDauntaGeraudArnaudClaud

Sibling names for Daud

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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