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Dovid

#1,213 in 2025Boys' name

Beloved, through David

Dovid has been given to 3,394 babies in the U.S. since 1957. In 2025 it ranked #1,213 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 167 recorded.

Babies named Dovid, 2025

1 in 19,900

Dovid over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dovid: meaning, origin, and history

Beloved, through David

Yiddish

What Dovid means

Dovid belongs to the name family reached through Dovid → David. Its meaning is “beloved”.

Origin, language, and formation

Dovid is used in English. Its origins include Yiddish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include David.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,394 boys were recorded with the name Dovid between 1957 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 167 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,213 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,309 in 2020 to #1,213 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,384 in 2015 to #1,213 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 Dovid?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 19,900
167 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 10,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,213
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
13,761 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dovid 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 13,761 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dovid. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dovids were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dovid was born before 2013 — so the typical Dovid is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,394
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 31.7% of all recorded uses (1,077).

Is Dovid 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
+84
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+96
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+171
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.34×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (167)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,213
2025

Spellings of Dovid

Dovid is not the most common spelling — David is, with 94.3% against Dovid's 0.09%.

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 Dovid is used

Across 1910–2025, Dovid was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 3,846 boys, against 1 in 21,880 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

026 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 3,846
  2. 2New York1 in 9,091
  3. 3Maryland1 in 50,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 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. Dovid has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dovid around the world

Where Dovid 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
    #2,269
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2022
    #2,602
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Dovid

People whose public names include Dovid, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Dovid in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Dovid. Linked forms have their own page here.

DaudDavidDavit

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Dovid by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,213
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 96
Best rank ever
#1,213
2025
Peak year
2025
167 that year
First recorded
1957
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,394
Count in 2025
167

Names similar to Dovid

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

ArvidDovNavidDuvidDovberDoverDoviJavidOvidJohndavidDvidDeividAvidDovyDeyvidDoveKingdavidDovonDovudDovieJondavidOrvidDovanDayvid

Names with a curve like Dovid

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Dovid, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

YakovUmarIlanTzviEliyahuYasinAkivaAryehNikolaAnasNoamAmmar

Sibling names for Dovid

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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