Given name
Davud
Davud is a masculine given name from Arabic. It is used in Azerbaijani.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2009. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Davud through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 108
- 108 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #9,102 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +40%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,102 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Davud’s family of names
Davud has a conventional equivalent in the English form David. In Azerbaijani usage, Davud has a related form in Давуд. Davud has a conventional equivalent in the Chinese form 大衛.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Davud has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Arabic roots to each of them.
3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Davud
- Dawud al-ZahiriIslamic scholar815–883
- Koca Davud PashaAlbanian general and grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1482 to 14971401–1498
- Mirza Davud HuseynovSoviet politician (1894–1938)
- Dawood SarkhoshAfghan Hazara singer and musicianborn 1971
- Davud MonshizadehIranian-Swedish academic1914–1989
- Davud KazimovAzerbaijani painter1926–2015
- Davood Mir-BagheriIranian film directorborn 1958
- Davud GhaffarzadeganIranian writer, teacher and novelist1338
- Davoud RashidiIranian actor1933–2016
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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