Daoud
Daoud is a name with a single cultural origin: Arabic.
- Arabic
Meaning & Origin of Daoud
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Daoud is a name with a single cultural origin: Arabic.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Arabic
The Story of Daoud
The earliest SSA record of Daoud as a baby boy name dates back to 1958, when 5 babies received it. 2019 was its biggest year on record, with 16 newborns named Daoud — #5,553 in the national rankings. About 28% of every Daoud on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. Daoud last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 8 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 272 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1950s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Daoud
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Daoud. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
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About the name Daoud
Daoud is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1958 and has accumulated 272 births in the dataset. Daoud's peak popularity came in 2019 when it ranked #5,553. Use the chart and map above to compare Daoud's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.