Dawid
From Hebrew, meaning "loved one". It still sits just inside Poland's top 50 boys' names and nearly a quarter of a million men already carry it, though fewer are given it each year.
Dawid Pronunciation
Dawid is pronounced DAH-veet (/ˈdavit/).
What Dawid means
Where Dawid comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Dawid comes from the Hebrew name David, which carried the sense of "beloved." That meaning, umiłowany in Polish, sits close to the root and needs no decoration.
The best known bearer is the shepherd who became king of Israel, the David of the Psalms and the fight with Goliath. His story spread the name across Christian Europe, and Poland took it up along with the rest. The variant Davyd shows the same name written a little differently, closer to older spellings.
In a Polish school register today the name lands somewhere near Damian and Dominik. On December 29 the calendar marks his imieniny, the busiest of several dates fixed to him.
Short and plain. Two syllables. A boy named Dawid answers to a word that has meant beloved for roughly three thousand years.
When Dawid celebrates name day
Dawid appears 7 times in the Polish name day calendar, 3 of them as a main name, the first on 1 March.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Dawid
1 in 89 men in Poland is named Dawid. 239,317 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #48 among male names.
Dawid's popularity over time
912 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #73 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #48 name among living men, even as it slips to #73 among newborns.
Where parents choose Dawid
Dawid is most popular in Podlaskie, 56% above the national average (509 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lublin (+37%) and Opole (+37%). It is least common in Kuyavian-Pomeranian and Greater Poland, 42% and 35% below average respectively.
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Podlaskie
+56%1 in 129 babies
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Lublin
+37%1 in 147 babies
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Opole
+37%1 in 148 babies
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian
−42%1 in 346 babies
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Greater Poland
−35%1 in 313 babies
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Warmian-Masurian
−16%1 in 242 babies
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Podlaskie+56% 509 born1 in 129 babies+56%
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Lublin+37% 698 born1 in 147 babies+37%
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Opole+37% 312 born1 in 148 babies+37%
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Subcarpathian+18% 705 born1 in 171 babies+18%
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Lesser Poland+12% 1,256 born1 in 181 babies+12%
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Silesian+6% 1,194 born1 in 191 babies+6%
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Masovian+5% 1,842 born1 in 192 babies+5%
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Lower Silesian+1% 788 born1 in 199 babies+1%
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Lubusz+1% 249 born1 in 199 babies+1%
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Holy Cross−4% 264 born1 in 210 babies−4%
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Łódź−10% 566 born1 in 224 babies−10%
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West Pomeranian−11% 371 born1 in 228 babies−11%
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Pomeranian−12% 642 born1 in 229 babies−12%
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Warmian-Masurian−16% 297 born1 in 242 babies−16%
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Greater Poland−35% 688 born1 in 313 babies−35%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian−42% 316 born1 in 346 babies−42%
Dawid as a middle name
Dawid is a first name for 239,317 men in Poland and a middle name for another 65,167, a 79/21 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 44th, between Mirosław (68,158) and Daniel (62,511).
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#42 Edward68,561
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#43 Mirosław68,158
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#44 Dawid65,167
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#45 Daniel62,511
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#46 Szymon62,434