Dawoud

#5,914 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Dawoud has been given to 132 babies in the U.S. since 2004. In 2025 it ranked #5,914 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Dawoud, 2025

1 in 221,000

Dawoud over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Dawoud?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 114,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,914
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dawoud 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dawoud. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dawouds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dawoud was born before 2020 — so the typical Dawoud is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
59.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
132
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 59.1% of all recorded uses (78).

Is Dawoud 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
+1,003
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+126
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,868
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2021 (15)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,828
2021

Spellings of Dawoud

Dawoud is not the most common spelling — Darold is, with 48.1% against Dawoud's 1.5%.

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 Dawoud is used

Across 1910–2025, Dawoud was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 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. Dawoud has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dawoud around the world

Where Dawoud 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
    2002–2025
    #2,014
    in 2025
  • France
    1997–2025
    #1,041
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2018–2023
    #2,747
    in 2023

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.

Dawoud by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,914
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 126
Best rank ever
#5,828
2021
Peak year
2021
15 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
132
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Dawoud

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Sibling names for Dawoud

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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