Given name
Dovid
“Beloved”·“darling”
In English use, Dovid has a related form in 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 English use, Dovid has a related form in 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
In English use, Dovid has a related form in David. David is a Hebrew biblical name, although its precise Hebrew derivation remains uncertain.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In English use, Dovid has a related form in 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 1957. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. In English use, Dovid has a related form in 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
Dovid through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 3,394
- 3,394 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 167 babies
- 2025
- 167
- #1,213 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +28%
- Rising
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 167 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 1,213 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 27.6% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. In 2025, New Jersey had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (99). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,316 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.
Dovid’s family of names
In English usage, Dovid has a related form in David.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
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 Dovid
- David RubingerIsraeli photojournalist and photographer (1924-2017)
- Dovid HofshteynSoviet poet in Yiddish language (1889-1952)
- Dovid KnutRussian writer (1900-1955)
- David PerlovIsraeli film director (1930–2003)
- David Conforte17th-century Ottoman rabbi and literary historian1617–1677
- Dovid KatzAmerican scholarborn 1956
- David GurfinkelIsraeli cinematographerborn 1938
- David AdikaIsraeli photographer and educator (born 1970)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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