Given name & surname
Dauda
Dauda is a masculine given name from Arabic. It is used in Hausa.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2014. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dauda through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 8
- 8 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2014
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 8 in 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 174 as a first name in 2020; 229 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.
Dauda’s family of names
In Hausa usage, Dauda has a conventional equivalent in the English form David. In Hausa usage, Dauda has a conventional equivalent in the Chinese form 大衛.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Dauda
- Collins DaudaGhanaian politicianborn 1957
- Dauda Epo-AkaraNigerian singer1943–2005
- Dauda IzoboNigerian boxerborn 1980
- Dauda Musa KomoNigerian military administrator (1959–2025)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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