Given name & surname
Daoud
“the beloved one”·“Beloved”·“darling”
Daoud is a form of David. “Beloved” or “darling” is a traditional interpretation. The original linguistic explanation is less certain than that familiar meaning may suggest.
Meaning & origin
What it means
In Arabian use, Daoud carries the interpretation “the beloved one.” Daoud is a form of David. “Beloved” or “darling” is a traditional interpretation. The original linguistic explanation is less certain than that familiar meaning may suggest.
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Where it comes from
Daoud is a form of David. David is a Hebrew biblical name, although its precise Hebrew derivation remains uncertain.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
Daoud is used as a form of David. Daoud is a form of David. The shared background comes through David: One explanation connects David with a Hebrew nursery word meaning “darling.” This remains a proposed derivation rather than an established breakdown into separate elements.
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1958. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Daoud is a form of David. The history of David gives this family its wider story. The biblical David is remembered as the young challenger of Goliath and later king of Israel. In Britain, the patron saint of Wales and two medieval Scottish kings gave the name further local associations.
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Daoud through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 283
- 283 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2019
- 16 babies
- 2025
- 11
- #7,296 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +14%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 11 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 7,296 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 16 in 2019. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 550 as a first name in 2020; 2,453 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Daoud’s family of names
Daoud is a form of David. Daoud has a related form in Dawud. Daoud has a related form in Daud.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 13
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Davidbase name
- Daveyequivalent
- Daveequivalent
- Davyequivalent
- Davideequivalent
- Davudequivalent
- Dawidequivalent
- Dewiequivalent
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People named Daoud
- Dawud al-Ta'i8th-century Iraqi Islamic scholar and sufi710–781
- Daoud Aoulad-SyadMoroccan filmmaker and photographer (born 1953)
- Daoud Abdel SayedEgyptian director and screenwriter1946–2025
- Daoud BousbibaDutch footballerborn 1995
- Daoud KuttabPalestinian journalist (born 1955)
- Daoud MusaQatari basketball player (born 1982)
- Daoud AmounLebanese politician1867–1922
- Daoud HananiaJordanian heart surgeonborn 1934
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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