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Dawood

#4,159 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Dawud

Dawood has been given to 360 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #4,159 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Dawood, 2025

1 in 133,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dawood: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Dawud

Arabic

What Dawood means

Dawood is a alternate transcription of Dawud.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Dawood is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Dawood comes through Arabic دَاوُود.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dawud and David.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 360 boys were recorded with the name Dawood between 1994 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 27 in 2023; its best national rank was #4,024 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,136 in 2020 to #4,159 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,427 in 2015 to #4,159 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 Dawood?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 133,000
25 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 68,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,159
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
91,917 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dawood 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 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dawood. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dawoods were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dawood was born before 2016 — so the typical Dawood is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
41.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
360
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 41.1% of all recorded uses (148).

Is Dawood 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
+763
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,977
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+268
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
92.6%
Peak was 2023 (27)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,024
2023

Spellings of Dawood

Dawood is not the most common spelling — Dawson is, with 57.3% against Dawood's 0.39%.

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 Dawood is used

Across 1910–2025, Dawood was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 552,583 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in —
  2. 2New 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. Dawood has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dawood around the world

Where Dawood 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
    #896
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2016–2024
    #727
    in 2024
  • France
    2022–2024
    #3,069
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2005–2024
    #1,817
    in 2024

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.

Dawood by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,159
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,977
Best rank ever
#4,024
2023
Peak year
2023
27 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
360
Count in 2025
25

Names similar to Dawood

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

DawsenDawsynDawidDawoudDawitDawensDawaunDawudMahmoodDawonAtwoodDawanWoodDawuanHarwoodHeywoodDawayneDawtonDawenskyDawnJoodDawoneKenwoodDawane

Sibling names for Dawood

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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