Davyd

Boys' name

Form of David

Davyd has been given to 128 babies in the U.S. since 1991. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2007, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Davyd, 2024

1 in 557,000

Davyd over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Davyd: meaning, origin, and history

Form of David

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Davyd means

Davyd is a form of David.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Davyd is used in Ukrainian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /dɐ.ˈʋɪd/ for Davyd.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include David.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 128 boys were recorded with the name Davyd between 1991 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2007; its best national rank was #5,600 in 1991.

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 Davyd?

Davyd had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 557,000; 6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only: 1 in 287,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 386,177 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Davyd 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Davyd. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Davyds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Davyd was born before 2005 — so the typical Davyd is around 20 today.

Median birth year: 2005; About 20 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 43.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 73.4%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 128; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 43.0% of all recorded uses (55).

Is Davyd 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2007 (11)
Years since peak: 18; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 35.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,600; 1991

Spellings of Davyd

Davyd is not the most common spelling — David is, with 94.1% against Davyd's <0.01%.

David94.1%3,676,654
Dave1.6%64,378
Daryl1.6%63,058
Davis0.82%32,076
Davon0.34%13,396
Davin0.27%10,636
Devyn0.17%6,793
Gavyn0.13%5,219

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.

Davyd around the world

Where Davyd 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
2023–2025
#2,269
in 2025
France
1974–2007
#4,194
in 2007
South Australia
1979–1979
#486
in 1979

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

Davyd by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #5,600; 1991
Peak year: 2007; 11 that year
First recorded: 1991
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 128
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Davyd

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

Davud Davit Davari Davier Daved Davies Daviel Davan Davaun Davine Davinci Davieon Davison Davius Davarion Daveed Davonn Davide Davaris Davyn Davio Davinchi Davell Davyon

Sibling names for Davyd

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

For a sister

Jailyn Kalli Neveah Marlen Jaylyn Lupita Rhianna Marin

For a brother

Jaeden Nikhil Jamarcus Slade Brandt Nevin Ean Isai

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