Davit

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled David in US United States, GB United Kingdom, ES Spain and 21 more, Давид in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, Davi in BR Brazil and Dawid in PL Poland.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Davit is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name380 records spelled Davit2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, Ukraine

  Also written Davit̕

• Bulgarian given name109 records spelled Davit8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Bulgaria, United States, Türkiye

  Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian

  Also written Давит

28 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Davit is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 32 years between 1985–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• David III of Taob. 930not in their usual nameGeorgian prince
• David IV of Georgiab. 1073GEnot in their usual nameKing of Georgia (1073-1125)
• David Soslanb. 1150not in their usual namePrince from Alania and King Consort of Georgia
• David X of Kartlib. 1473GEnot in their usual nameKing of Kartli
• David II of Kakhetib. 1678IRnot in their usual nameKing of Kakheti
• Davit Guramishvilib. 1705GEGeorgian poet (1705-1792)
• David Bagrationib. 1767GEnot in their usual nameson of George XII of Georgia (1767-1819)
• Dodo Abashidzeb. 1924GEnot in their usual nameGeorgian Soviet actor and director (1924–1990)
• David Usupashvilib. 1968GEnot in their usual nameGeorgian lawyer and politician
• Davit Bakradzeb. 1972GEGeorgian politician and diplomat

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 167 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Davit?

We estimate roughly 5.1 million people bear Davit (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Davit have the most bearers?

Davit is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled david.

How common is Davit compared with other names?

In the United Kingdom, Davit is the 2nd most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.

Is Davit a male or female name?

Davit is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.