Given name & surname
Dawid
“beloved”
Dawid is a masculine given name from Late Latin, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Polish and Northern Kurdish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Dawid goes back to Latin David, meaning “beloved.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
In Polish use, Dawid shares an earlier linguistic root with David. David is a Hebrew biblical name, although its precise Hebrew derivation remains uncertain.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Polish use, Dawid shares an earlier linguistic root with 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.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1993. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. In Polish use, Dawid shares an earlier linguistic root with 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
Dawid through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 380
- 380 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 26 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,468 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −56%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,468 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 26 in 2008. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 985 as a first name in 2020; 203 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.
Dawid’s family of names
In Polish usage, Dawid has a diminutive in Dawidek. Dawid shares a linguistic root with David. In Polish usage, Dawid has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Davide.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Dawid has relatives in 29 languages.
22 related names in 29 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 28
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Davidcognate · English, French
- DaviPortuguese
- Daveyequivalent
- Daveequivalent
- Davyequivalent
- Daoudequivalent
- DavideItalian
- Davydequivalent
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People named Dawid
- Dziga VertovRussian-Soviet documentary/avantgarde filmmaker (1896-1954)
- Dawid KownackiPolish association football playerborn 1997
- Dawid KubackiPolish ski jumperborn 1990
- Dawid JungPolish poetborn 1980
- Dawid TomalaPolish race walkerborn 1989
- Dawid PodsiadłoPolish singer-songwriterborn 1993
- Dawid PrzepiórkaPolish chess player1880–1940
- Dawid MalanEnglish cricketerborn 1987
- Dawid OgrodnikPolish actorborn 1986
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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