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Dawud

#3,143 in 2025Boys' name

Form of David

Dawud has been given to 1,030 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #3,143 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 46 recorded.

Babies named Dawud, 2025

1 in 87,200

Dawud over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dawud: meaning, origin, and history

Form of David

Arabic

What Dawud means

Dawud is a form of David.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Dawud is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include David.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,030 boys were recorded with the name Dawud between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 46 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,458 in 1977.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,355 in 2020 to #3,143 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,604 in 2015 to #3,143 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 Dawud?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 87,200
38 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 44,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,143
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
60,472 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dawud 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 60,472 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dawud. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dawuds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dawud was born before 2004 — so the typical Dawud is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
22.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,030
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Choose a decade

2010s — 22.4% of all recorded uses (231).

Is Dawud 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
−260
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+212
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+461
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.27×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
82.6%
Peak was 2023 (46)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,458
1977

Spellings of Dawud

Dawud is not the most common spelling — David is, with 99.8% against Dawud's 0.03%.

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 Dawud is used

Across 1910–2025, Dawud was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 321,405 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Dawud has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dawud around the world

Where Dawud 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
    #389
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2007–2024
    #727
    in 2024
  • France
    2005–2025
    #1,277
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2011–2024
    #2,328
    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.

Dawud by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,143
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 212
Best rank ever
#1,458
1977
Peak year
2023
46 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,030
Count in 2025
38

Names similar to Dawud

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

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Sibling names for Dawud

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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