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Dawit

#5,251 in 2025Boys' name

Form of David

Dawit has been given to 571 babies in the U.S. since 1984. In 2025 it ranked #5,251 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Dawit, 2025

1 in 184,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dawit: meaning, origin, and history

Form of David

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dawit means

Dawit is a form of David.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Dawit → 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, 571 boys were recorded with the name Dawit between 1984 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 2013; its best national rank was #3,781 in 1992.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,569 in 2020 to #5,251 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,344 in 2015 to #5,251 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 Dawit?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 94,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,251
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dawit 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 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dawit. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dawits were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dawit was born before 2009 — so the typical Dawit is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
571
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Choose a decade

2010s — 31.7% of all recorded uses (181).

Is Dawit 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
+233
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−682
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+93
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.06×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
69.2%
Peak was 2013 (26)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,781
1992

Spellings of Dawit

Dawit is not the most common spelling — David is, with 96.2% against Dawit'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 Dawit is used

Across 1910–2025, Dawit was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,614,167 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Minnesota1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Dawit has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dawit around the world

Where Dawit 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
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • France
    2025–2025
    #3,539
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2008
    #536
    in 2008
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #1,614
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, 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. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Dawit by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,251
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 682
Best rank ever
#3,781
1992
Peak year
2013
26 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
571
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Dawit

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

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Sibling names for Dawit

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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