Dávid
A Hebrew name meaning the loved one, written here in the accented form that sets it apart from the everyday Polish Dawid. Only about 120 people in Poland carry this spelling, so meeting one stays memorable.
Dávid Pronunciation
What Dávid means
Where Dávid comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Dawid comes from Hebrew. In the original דָּוִד it carried the sense "beloved," a reading old translators gave the root and later hands kept. Polish settled on the form Dawid, with a w where other languages set a v, or the accented dávid used by Hungarian and Slovak neighbours.
The root is short.
The oldest Dawid most Polish children meet is the shepherd who felled Goliath and later ruled as king of Israel. That story pinned the name into the Old Testament long before any parish clerk wrote it into a register. So the name arrived already carrying a biography, one of a boy who grew into a crown.
In the Polish calendar Dawid keeps his name-day on 29 December. Open the December page of a school register and you find it printed in plain ink, next to a boy who will bring sweets to class that morning. Nearly 240,000 men in Poland answer to it, twenty-fifth among male names. Under all of that sits one steady word: beloved, ukochany.
How many people are named Dávid
1 in 176415 men in Poland is named Dávid. 121 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3050 among male names.
Dávid's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Dávid as a middle name
Dávid is a first name for 121 men in Poland and a middle name for another 18, an 87/13 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2123rd, between Dragan (18) and Fabrizio (18).
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#2121 Donatan18
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#2122 Dragan18
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#2123 Dávid18
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#2124 Fabrizio18
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#2125 Fidelis18