# Daud (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/daud/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 277 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 277 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 362, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 14 | 6,018 |
| 2012 | 13 | 6,398 |
| 2013 | 12 | 6,706 |
| 2014 | 12 | 6,729 |
| 2015 | 16 | 5,564 |
| 2016 | 8 | 9,036 |
| 2017 | 13 | 6,397 |
| 2018 | 13 | 6,425 |
| 2019 | 8 | 9,076 |
| 2020 | 17 | 5,297 |
| 2021 | 11 | 7,205 |
| 2022 | 9 | 8,460 |
| 2023 | 7 | 9,972 |
| 2024 | 14 | 6,255 |
| 2025 | 13 | 6,543 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 15 | 1,522 |
| 2012 | 13 | 1,756 |
| 2013 | 6 | 2,954 |
| 2014 | 15 | 1,560 |
| 2015 | 17 | 1,442 |
| 2016 | 11 | 2,027 |
| 2017 | 17 | 1,470 |
| 2018 | 10 | 2,112 |
| 2019 | 18 | 1,369 |
| 2020 | 13 | 1,723 |
| 2021 | 15 | 1,595 |
| 2022 | 10 | 2,165 |
| 2023 | 10 | 2,160 |
| 2024 | 11 | 2,088 |
| 2025 | 16 | 1,613 |

## People named Daud

- Daud Khan Karrani, Final Sultan of Bengal (1572-76)
- Al-Mu'tadid II, 11th Caliph of Cairo
- An-Nasir Dawud, Ayyubid Emir of Damascus 1227–1229 and of Kerak 1229–1248
- Ataúd Gazale, Chilean footballer
- Dawud ibn Yazid ibn Hatim al-Muhallabi, abbasid Provincial governor
- Dawood Hosni, Egyptian musicians (1870-1937)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.