Dāvids
given name · Latin script
Meaning: David (Biblical figure)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dāvids is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country, where it is the 76th most common surname.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 14K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 59K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 291 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈51,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Davids in US United States, ZA South Africa, DE Germany and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
David (Biblical figure)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dāvids counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | #76 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Davids | 127 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Davids | 49 |
| US United States | — | 2,380 | 1 in 140K | 2.5K | Davids | 291 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Davids | 82 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,216 | 1 in 14K | 1.2K | Davids | 72 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 59K | 1 | Davids | 99 |
| BE Belgium | — | 223 | 1 in 53K | 223 | Davids | 23 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Dāvids is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Dāvida dzirnavu avoti - ģeoloģiskais un ģeomorfoloģiskais dabas piemineklis, atrodas Vaives kreisā krasta nogāzē pie bijušajām Dāvida dzirnavām Cēsu novada Vaives pagastā, valsts aizsardzībā kopš 1974. g., tajā ir avotu virkne (>25 avoti), kas izplūst nogāzē un veido 7-8 m augstu krāčveidīgu ūdenskritumu, ūdenī ir daudz dzelzs savienojumu, kas avotu gultni iekrāsojuši rūsganu
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Izraēlas un Jūdejas valsts valdnieks (11. gs. beigas -ap 950. g. p. m. ē.); iekaroja seno kanaāniešu pilsētu Jeruzalemi, kas kļuva par valsts galvaspilsētu; Dāvids ebreju folklorā attēlots kā drosminieks, kas uzvarējis milzi Goliātu
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Davids Balodisb. 1809LVLatvian theologian
- Dāvids Sīmansonsb. 1859LVLatvian military personnel (1859–1933)
- Dāvids Krūzab. 1868LVLatvian politician
- Dāvids Apinisb. 1887LVLatvian politician (1887-1952)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dāvids mean, and where does it come from?
- David (Biblical figure) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Dāvids a male or female name?
- Dāvids 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 are other forms of the name Dāvids?
- In the etymology graph, David, Dave and Davi are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Dāvids have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 51 thousand people named Dāvids in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled davids.
- How common is the name Dāvids?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,380 people named Dāvids in 2010, about 1 in 140 thousand residents.
- How common is Dāvids compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Dāvids is the 76th most common surname of 285,788 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dāvids?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C4%81vidsThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Dāvids” — the 76th most common surname in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.