Given name
Davyd
“Beloved”·“darling”
Davyd is a variant 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
Davyd is a variant of David. “Beloved” or “darling” is a traditional interpretation. The original linguistic explanation is less certain than that familiar meaning may suggest.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Davyd is a variant of David. David is a Hebrew biblical name, although its precise Hebrew derivation remains uncertain.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
Davyd is a variant 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 1991. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Davyd is a variant 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.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Davyd through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 128
- 128 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 11 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 6 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 11 in 2007. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 450 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Davyd’s family of names
Davyd has a related form in David. In Belarusian usage, Davyd is a transliteration of Давыд.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Davyd
- David AlbahariSerbian writer (1948-2023)
- David CherkasskySoviet and Ukrainian animation director, screenwriter, animator (1931–2018)
- Davyd ArakhamiaUkrainian politician (born 1979)
- Davyd ZhvaniaUkrainian politician (1967—2022)
- Davyd Rostislavichprince of Smolensk1140–1197
- Davyd BichinashviliOlympic wrestlerborn 1975
- Davyd SviatoslavichRus Prince1050–1123
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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