# Dovid (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/dovid/  
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 | Yiddish |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,394 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 3,394 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 249, 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 | 90 | 1,669 |
| 2012 | 99 | 1,591 |
| 2013 | 103 | 1,542 |
| 2014 | 98 | 1,600 |
| 2015 | 125 | 1,384 |
| 2016 | 106 | 1,557 |
| 2017 | 113 | 1,490 |
| 2018 | 124 | 1,410 |
| 2019 | 127 | 1,395 |
| 2020 | 138 | 1,309 |
| 2021 | 148 | 1,283 |
| 2022 | 161 | 1,221 |
| 2023 | 149 | 1,290 |
| 2024 | 151 | 1,297 |
| 2025 | 167 | 1,213 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | 2,613 |
| 2012 | 14 | 1,669 |
| 2013 | 7 | 2,660 |
| 2014 | 12 | 1,819 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4,747 |
| 2016 | 11 | 2,027 |
| 2017 | 12 | 1,923 |
| 2018 | 5 | 3,412 |
| 2019 | 8 | 2,488 |
| 2020 | 12 | 1,825 |
| 2021 | 10 | 2,125 |
| 2022 | 15 | 1,609 |
| 2023 | 6 | 3,112 |
| 2024 | 21 | 1,282 |
| 2025 | 10 | 2,269 |

## People named Dovid

- Dovid Katz, American scholar
- David Conforte, 17th-century Ottoman rabbi and literary historian

## 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.