# Dawud (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/dawud/  
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 | 1,030 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,030 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,660, 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 | 22 | 4,397 |
| 2012 | 25 | 4,039 |
| 2013 | 17 | 5,220 |
| 2014 | 21 | 4,571 |
| 2015 | 30 | 3,605 |
| 2016 | 25 | 4,122 |
| 2017 | 21 | 4,633 |
| 2018 | 29 | 3,726 |
| 2019 | 24 | 4,253 |
| 2020 | 33 | 3,357 |
| 2021 | 22 | 4,522 |
| 2022 | 33 | 3,480 |
| 2023 | 46 | 2,773 |
| 2024 | 44 | 2,883 |
| 2025 | 38 | 3,144 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 52 | 638 |
| 2012 | 45 | 734 |
| 2013 | 68 | 538 |
| 2014 | 62 | 574 |
| 2015 | 52 | 656 |
| 2016 | 100 | 420 |
| 2017 | 89 | 462 |
| 2018 | 98 | 427 |
| 2019 | 100 | 418 |
| 2020 | 94 | 426 |
| 2021 | 109 | 395 |
| 2022 | 96 | 427 |
| 2023 | 91 | 431 |
| 2024 | 126 | 346 |
| 2025 | 106 | 389 |

## 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.