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David
Pronounced /ˈdeɪvɪd/
Rank in 2024
#31
Born in 2024
7,317
Peak year
1955 · #2
Origin
Hebrew
Also recorded for girls:7 in 2024 (#13,108)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 7,317 boys were named David, about 1 in every 234.
- It peaked in 1955 with 86,301 babies, ranked #2.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 3,669,730 boys have been named David since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named David per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 7.1Greatest1901–27
- 19.0Silent1928–45
- 37.2Boomers1946–64
- 30.0Gen X1965–80
- 17.5Millennials1981–96
- 9.0Gen Z1997–12
- 5.3Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 119,033 babies, 7.12 per 1,000. Silent: 391,870 babies, 18.97 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,395,972 babies, 37.18 per 1,000. Gen X: 816,036 babies, 29.98 per 1,000. Millennials: 532,384 babies, 17.49 per 1,000. Gen Z: 283,247 babies, 9.02 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 115,403 babies, 5.31 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Middle English David, Davyd, Davyde, from Old English Dauid, David, from Late Latin Dāvīd, from Koine Greek Δαυῑ̈́δ (Dauī̈́d), from Biblical Hebrew דָּוִד (dāwiḏ, literally “beloved”).
- A male given name from Hebrew.
- (rare) A female given name, often combined with a feminine middle name (e.g. David Ann).
- Origin
- Hebrew
- Say it
- /ˈdeɪvɪd/
From Wiktionary’s entry for David, CC BY-SA 4.0.