Daudi
surname · Swahili · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Daudi is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Kenya it is the 5th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Swahili and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Swahili: "beloved"; from Arabic Dawud, referring to David.
- KEKenya1 in 114◐
- USUnited States1 in 118
- ESSpain1 in 134
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈4.3M ●
- Sources
- 466 ●
- 1 in 53 ◐
across 16 countries
419K records
Official registry-verified
Czechia
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled David in US United States, ES Spain, KE Kenya and 6 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Swahili: "beloved"; from Arabic Dawud, referring to David.
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 31 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 2,810,463△ | 187K rec. | 1 in 118 | 2.8M | David | 466 |
| ES Spain | — | 372,975△ | 4.7K rec. | 1 in 134 | 373K | David | 131 |
| FR France | — | 315,975△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 215 | 316K | — | 2 |
| KE Kenya | #5 | 254,256 | 41K rec. | — | listed | David | 104 |
| BR Brazil | — | 228,894 | 0 rec. | 1 in 925 | 229K | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 202,622 | — | 1 in 53 | 203K | — | — |
| HN Honduras | — | 108,000 | — | 1 in 86 | 108K | — | — |
| EC Ecuador | — | 72,891△ | 177 rec. | 1 in 232 | 73K | — | 43 |
| HU Hungary | — | 67,527 | — | 1 in 145 | 68K | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 57,716△ | 645 rec. | 1 in 177 | 58K | — | 61 |
| NG Nigeria | #121 | 49,951 | 74K rec. | — | listed | David | 105 |
| TZ Tanzania | #53 | 32,815 | 22K rec. | — | 8 | Daudi | 65 |
Roughly 2.8M people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 118). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Swahili25K75%
- English2.7K8%
- Hindi1.1K3%
- Indonesian8473%
- Arabic5032%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swahili | 24,975 | 75% |
| English | 2,702 | 8% |
| Hindi | 1,110 | 3% |
| Indonesian | 847 | 3% |
| Arabic | 503 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Daudi is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, Swahili form of David; biblical/Qur'anic name
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Swahili, a male given name from Arabic, equivalent to English David
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swahili, Swahili: David form
as a nameAfrican Names
Beloved one.
as a nameThe African book of names
beloved
as a nameAfrican Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence●
Attested in 27 sources across 20 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 43 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Daudi?
- We estimate roughly 4.3 million people bear Daudi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.
- In which country does Daudi have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 2.8 million people bear Daudi in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled david.
- Where is Daudi most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Daudi is densest in the Czechia — about 1 in 53 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Daudi compared with other names?
- In Kenya, Daudi is the 5th most common given name of 51,773 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Daudi mean?
- Recorded meaning: Swahili: "beloved"; from Arabic Dawud, referring to David.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Daudi” — the 5th most common given name in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.