Dawood
Dawood was given to 25 boys in 2025, #4,159 among boys’ names; 360 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dawood by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dawood mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dawood is “a male given name from Arabic.”
From Arabic دَاوُود (dāwūd). Doublet of David.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dawood?
#4,159 among boys’ names, 2025
Dawood rose from #4,427 in 2015 to #4,159 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 11.5 to 14.6 per million.
27 babies in 2023, the peak
Dawood peaked in 2023, when 27 boys were given it, #4,024 among boys’ names. The 25 births of 2025 are 93% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #4,159 | 14.6 |
| 2024 | 20 | #4,922 | 11.6 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,024 | 15.8 |
| 2022 | 18 | #5,251 | 10.3 |
| 2021 | 17 | #5,384 | 9.7 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,136 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 19 | #4,998 | 10.6 |
| 2018 | 20 | #4,782 | 11.0 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,398 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,366 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #4,427 | 11.5 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,374 | 6.8 |
| 2013 | 16 | #5,440 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,703 | 6.3 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,103 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 5 | #12,681 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 6 | #11,314 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,456 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,720 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,547 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,339 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,295 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,344 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,539 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,414 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,952 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,535 | 5.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dawood a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dawood has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dawood: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dawood, and how old are they?
An estimated 356 Americans named Dawood and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 4 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 757 people named Dawood (6 women and girls, 751 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 243 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.1 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,902 babies since 1880, Dawood is the third most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 83 babies (30%), the second 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 Dawood
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 Dawood and names like it
- Compare Dawood and DawudBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sDawood peaked in 2023.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dawood since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Dawood: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Dawood.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Dawood alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.