Meaning not yet researched.
Dovid: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 167 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,213 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Dovid in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,213 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Dovid: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 167 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,213 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 167 (2025).
In 2025, 167 US boys were named Dovid, making it the 1,213th most common boys’ name of the year, up 84 places from #1,297 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 151 boys named Dovid in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,213, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 167. For comparison, it was #1,384 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dovid in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1957 with 5 babies. In all, 3,394 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,077 babies named Dovid.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,384 US boys were named Dovid; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 167. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,228 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dovid ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #99 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Rarer spellings such as Duvid and Dovud are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Duvid (371), Dovud (12).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Dovid in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 99 | #99 | #206 |
| New York | 41 | #420 | #353 |
| Maryland | 7 | #647 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,282 | — |
| Florida | 7 | #1,513 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 167 | #1,213 |
| 2024 | — | — | 151 | #1,297 |
| 2023 | — | — | 149 | #1,290 |
| 2022 | — | — | 161 | #1,221 |
| 2021 | — | — | 148 | #1,283 |
| 2020 | — | — | 138 | #1,309 |
| 2019 | — | — | 127 | #1,395 |
| 2018 | — | — | 124 | #1,410 |
| 2017 | — | — | 113 | #1,490 |
| 2016 | — | — | 106 | #1,557 |
| 2015 | — | — | 125 | #1,384 |
| 2014 | — | — | 98 | #1,600 |
| 2013 | — | — | 103 | #1,542 |
| 2012 | — | — | 99 | #1,591 |
| 2011 | — | — | 90 | #1,669 |
| 2010 | — | — | 92 | #1,679 |
| 2009 | — | — | 97 | #1,628 |
| 2008 | — | — | 80 | #1,830 |
| 2007 | — | — | 89 | #1,703 |
| 2006 | — | — | 68 | #1,975 |
| 2005 | — | — | 65 | #1,949 |
| 2004 | — | — | 66 | #1,860 |
| 2003 | — | — | 57 | #2,015 |
| 2002 | — | — | 66 | #1,750 |
| 2001 | — | — | 50 | #2,093 |
| 2000 | — | — | 57 | #1,858 |
| 1999 | — | — | 47 | #2,038 |
| 1998 | — | — | 43 | #2,133 |
| 1997 | — | — | 49 | #1,895 |
| 1996 | — | — | 37 | #2,227 |
| 1995 | — | — | 36 | #2,223 |
| 1994 | — | — | 33 | #2,361 |
| 1993 | — | — | 45 | #1,857 |
| 1992 | — | — | 24 | #2,865 |
| 1991 | — | — | 24 | #2,771 |
| 1990 | — | — | 35 | #2,100 |
| 1989 | — | — | 30 | #2,259 |
| 1988 | — | — | 24 | #2,461 |
| 1987 | — | — | 19 | #2,753 |
| 1986 | — | — | 26 | #2,179 |
| 1985 | — | — | 27 | #2,088 |
| 1984 | — | — | 16 | #2,856 |
| 1983 | — | — | 22 | #2,296 |
| 1982 | — | — | 16 | #2,877 |
| 1981 | — | — | 17 | #2,703 |
| 1980 | — | — | 19 | #2,563 |
| 1979 | — | — | 14 | #3,050 |
| 1978 | — | — | 13 | #3,108 |
| 1977 | — | — | 10 | #3,680 |
| 1976 | — | — | 7 | #4,559 |
| 1975 | — | — | 11 | #3,297 |
| 1974 | — | — | 8 | #3,935 |
| 1973 | — | — | 12 | #2,898 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,179 |
| 1971 | — | — | 9 | #3,442 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,384 |
| 1969 | — | — | 8 | #3,392 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #3,817 |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,215 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,135 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).