Dawid

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 דוד in IL Israel.

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●

Attested across 28 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◐

Dawid is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name3.3K records spelled Dawid6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, South Africa, Spain, Belgium

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Dáwid, Dāwid, Dawîd, Dawïd

• Finnish given name1.6K records spelled Dawid3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, South Africa, Netherlands, Estonia

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Dāwid

• Czech given name678 records spelled Dawid4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, United Kingdom, South Africa

  Languages: Czech, Slovak

  Also written Dāwīd, Dawīd

• a separate given name612 records spelled Dawid5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ethiopia, South Africa, United Kingdom

  Also written Dāwid, Dāwíd, Däwid, Dāwîd

36 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●

Dawid 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 Breton, pour (chercher)

  as a word·Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

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●

NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 47 years between 1976–2023. 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 HaLevi Segalb. 1586UAnot in their usual namePolish Jewish rabbi
• Dawid Przepiórkab. 1880PLPolish chess player
• David Burliukb. 1882USnot in their usual nameUkrainian & American artist (1882-1967)
• Dziga Vertovb. 1895UAnot in their usual nameRussian-Soviet documentary/avantgarde filmmaker (1896-1954)
• David Bronsteinb. 1924UAnot in their usual nameSoviet chess grandmaster
• Dawid Ogrodnikb. 1986PLPolish actor
• Dawid Tomalab. 1989PLPolish race walker
• Dawid Kubackib. 1990PLPolish ski jumper
• Dawid Podsiadłob. 1993PLPolish singer-songwriter
• Dawid Kownackib. 1997PLPolish association football player

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 · 398 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Dawid?

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

In which country does Dawid have the most bearers?

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

How common is Dawid compared with other names?

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

Is Dawid a male or female name?

Dawid 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.

What does the name Dawid mean?

Recorded meaning: männl. Vom., russische Form von