Dovid
Dovid was given to 167 boys in 2025, #1,213 among boys’ names; 3,394 Americans have been recorded with it since 1957 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,330 Americans named Dovid and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dovid by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dovid mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dovid is “a male given name from Yiddish, variant of David.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dovid?
#1,213 among boys’ names, 2025
Dovid rose from #1,384 in 2015 to #1,213 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 65.2 to 97.8 per million.
167 babies in 2025, the peak
Dovid peaked in 2025, when 167 boys were given it, #1,213 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 151 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 167 | #1,213 | 97.8 |
| 2024 | 151 | #1,297 | 87.6 |
| 2023 | 149 | #1,290 | 87.1 |
| 2022 | 161 | #1,221 | 92.2 |
| 2021 | 148 | #1,283 | 84.6 |
| 2020 | 138 | #1,309 | 80.0 |
| 2019 | 127 | #1,395 | 70.8 |
| 2018 | 124 | #1,410 | 68.3 |
| 2017 | 113 | #1,490 | 61.0 |
| 2016 | 106 | #1,557 | 55.9 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 125 | #1,384 | 65.2 |
| 2014 | 98 | #1,600 | 51.0 |
| 2013 | 103 | #1,542 | 54.5 |
| 2012 | 99 | #1,591 | 52.2 |
| 2011 | 90 | #1,669 | 47.4 |
| 2010 | 92 | #1,679 | 47.9 |
| 2009 | 97 | #1,627 | 48.9 |
| 2008 | 80 | #1,830 | 39.2 |
| 2007 | 89 | #1,703 | 42.9 |
| 2006 | 68 | #1,974 | 33.1 |
| 2005 | 65 | #1,945 | 32.5 |
| 2004 | 66 | #1,856 | 33.2 |
| 2003 | 57 | #2,011 | 28.9 |
| 2002 | 66 | #1,747 | 34.0 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,089 | 25.7 |
| 2000 | 57 | #1,854 | 29.0 |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,035 | 24.5 |
| 1998 | 43 | #2,130 | 22.5 |
| 1997 | 49 | #1,892 | 26.0 |
| 1996 | 37 | #2,222 | 19.5 |
| 1995 | 36 | #2,218 | 18.9 |
| 1994 | 33 | #2,356 | 17.1 |
| 1993 | 45 | #1,852 | 22.9 |
| 1992 | 24 | #2,859 | 12.0 |
| 1991 | 24 | #2,765 | 11.9 |
| 1990 | 35 | #2,095 | 17.0 |
| 1989 | 30 | #2,253 | 15.0 |
| 1988 | 24 | #2,456 | 12.5 |
| 1987 | 19 | #2,749 | 10.2 |
| 1986 | 26 | #2,177 | 14.1 |
| 1985 | 27 | #2,087 | 14.6 |
| 1984 | 16 | #2,855 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 22 | #2,295 | 12.3 |
| 1982 | 16 | #2,876 | 8.8 |
| 1981 | 17 | #2,701 | 9.5 |
| 1980 | 19 | #2,562 | 10.7 |
| 1979 | 14 | #3,049 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,107 | 7.9 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,678 | 6.1 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,557 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 11 | #3,295 | 7.0 |
| 1974 | 8 | #3,933 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,896 | 7.7 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,177 | 3.1 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,440 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,382 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,391 | 4.5 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,816 | 3.5 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,214 | 2.4 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,134 | 2.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dovid a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dovid has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dovid: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dovid, and how old are they?
3,330 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,394 Americans ever recorded as Dovid. The median Dovid alive today is 13 years old; half are between 6 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 2,316 people named Dovid (8 women and girls, 2,308 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,471 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 7 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 115 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 411 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,700 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Dovid born?
The states with the most babies named Dovid are New Jersey, New York and Maryland, with 92% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey and Maryland are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 99 | #99 | 12.8× |
| New York | 41 | #420 | 7.0× |
| Maryland | 7 | #647 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,513 | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,282 | 0.0× |
Where Dovid is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dovid is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1957 it was given 12.8 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 Dovid with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dovid
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 Dovid and names like it
- Compare Dovid and TzviBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sDovid peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dovid since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Dovid.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Dovid alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.