Dawud
Dawud was given to 38 boys in 2025, #3,143 among boys’ names; 1,030 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dawud by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dawud mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dawud is “a male given name from Arabic, equivalent to English David.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dawud?
#3,143 among boys’ names, 2025
Dawud rose from #3,604 in 2015 to #3,143 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 15.7 to 22.2 per million.
46 babies in 2023, the peak
Dawud peaked in 2023, when 46 boys were given it, #2,772 among boys’ names. The 38 births of 2025 are 83% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38 | #3,143 | 22.2 |
| 2024 | 44 | #2,883 | 25.5 |
| 2023 | 46 | #2,772 | 26.9 |
| 2022 | 33 | #3,478 | 18.9 |
| 2021 | 22 | #4,518 | 12.6 |
| 2020 | 33 | #3,355 | 19.1 |
| 2019 | 24 | #4,249 | 13.4 |
| 2018 | 29 | #3,722 | 16.0 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,629 | 11.3 |
| 2016 | 25 | #4,121 | 13.2 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #3,604 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 21 | #4,567 | 10.9 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,216 | 9.0 |
| 2012 | 25 | #4,036 | 13.2 |
| 2011 | 22 | #4,395 | 11.6 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,295 | 8.9 |
| 2009 | 13 | #6,511 | 6.6 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,480 | 6.4 |
| 2007 | 14 | #5,983 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,549 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 13 | #5,938 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,061 | 8.1 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,345 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,171 | 5.7 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,746 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,640 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,820 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 13 | #4,939 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 17 | #3,916 | 9.0 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,258 | 5.8 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,319 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 6 | #7,986 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,072 | 5.6 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,648 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,540 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 8 | #5,952 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,747 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,512 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,775 | 6.4 |
| 1986 | 11 | #3,930 | 6.0 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,115 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,643 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,275 | 7.3 |
| 1982 | 20 | #2,447 | 11.0 |
| 1981 | 29 | #1,905 | 16.2 |
| 1980 | 25 | #2,126 | 14.0 |
| 1979 | 28 | #1,912 | 16.3 |
| 1978 | 35 | #1,601 | 21.3 |
| 1977 | 40 | #1,458 | 24.3 |
| 1976 | 21 | #2,188 | 13.4 |
| 1975 | 19 | #2,301 | 12.2 |
| 1974 | 25 | #1,840 | 15.9 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,628 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,855 | 7.4 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,732 | 4.5 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,350 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dawud a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dawud has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dawud: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dawud, and how old are they?
An estimated 993 Americans named Dawud and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 8 and 44. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 787 people named Dawud (0 women and girls, 787 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 796 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
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, Dawud is the most given (54% of them). In 2025 it was given to 38 of their 83 babies (46%), again the most given.
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 Dawud
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 Dawud and names like it
- Compare Dawud and DawidBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sDawud peaked in 2023.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dawud since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Dawud: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Dawud.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Dawud alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.