Dawid
Dawid was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,464 among boys’ names; 380 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dawid by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dawid mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Dawid is “a male given name, equivalent to English David”
Learned borrowing from Late Latin Dāvīd, from Koine Greek Δαυῑ̈́δ (Dauī̈́d), from Biblical Hebrew דָּוִד (dāwiḏ).
/ˈda.vit/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dawid?
#12,464 among boys’ names, 2025
Dawid fell from #6,761 in 2015 to #12,464 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.3 to 2.9 per million.
26 babies in 2008, the peak
Dawid peaked in 2008, when 26 boys were given it, #3,952 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,464 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,128 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,135 | 3.5 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,561 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,222 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,083 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,237 | 6.1 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,772 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,108 | 7.4 |
| 2015 | 12 | #6,761 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 11 | #7,164 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 15 | #5,722 | 7.9 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,525 | 8.4 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,620 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,184 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 18 | #5,140 | 9.1 |
| 2008 | 26 | #3,952 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 24 | #4,145 | 11.6 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,548 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,225 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,214 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 17 | #4,647 | 8.6 |
| 2002 | 14 | #5,186 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 16 | #4,724 | 8.2 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,832 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,736 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 13 | #4,937 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,361 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,621 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,580 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,584 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,034 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dawid a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dawid has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dawid: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dawid, and how old are they?
An estimated 374 Americans named Dawid and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 12 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 985 people named Dawid (2 women and girls, 983 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 346 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Dawid born?
The states with the most babies named Dawid are Illinois, New York and New Jersey, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 171 | not ranked | 10.6× |
| New York | 14 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 6 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Dawid is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dawid is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1993 it was given 10.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Dawid with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,902 babies since 1880, Dawid is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 83 babies (6.0%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dawid
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Dawid and names like it
- Compare Dawid and DawudBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDawid peaked in 2008.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dawid since 1910.
- Polish namesWiktionary’s origin for Dawid: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Dawid.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dawid alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.