# Dawood (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/dawood/  
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 | Arabic |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 360 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 360 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 609, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic دَاوُود (dāwūd). Doublet of David.

## 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 | 11 | 7,110 |
| 2012 | 12 | 6,709 |
| 2013 | 16 | 5,444 |
| 2014 | 13 | 6,379 |
| 2015 | 22 | 4,429 |
| 2016 | 17 | 5,370 |
| 2017 | 13 | 6,402 |
| 2018 | 20 | 4,786 |
| 2019 | 19 | 5,002 |
| 2020 | 11 | 7,141 |
| 2021 | 17 | 5,389 |
| 2022 | 18 | 5,255 |
| 2023 | 27 | 4,027 |
| 2024 | 20 | 4,926 |
| 2025 | 25 | 4,160 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 27 | 999 |
| 2012 | 23 | 1,152 |
| 2013 | 24 | 1,086 |
| 2014 | 20 | 1,281 |
| 2015 | 30 | 977 |
| 2016 | 35 | 884 |
| 2017 | 33 | 931 |
| 2018 | 31 | 932 |
| 2019 | 31 | 929 |
| 2020 | 20 | 1,273 |
| 2021 | 26 | 1,078 |
| 2022 | 23 | 1,179 |
| 2023 | 24 | 1,175 |
| 2024 | 33 | 945 |
| 2025 | 35 | 896 |

## In other languages

- Chinese: 達烏德 /达乌德

## 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.