David (first name)

David is a Hebrew male given name from the Bible . There it is the third most frequent name after Moses and Abraham, mentioned more than 1000 times and, as in the Koran, almost always designates David , the king of Israel and Judas. Its original form is Hebrew דָּוִד Dawidh'The beloved, darling (of God)', standard Hebrew Dávid , Tiberian Hebrew Dāwiḏ ; Arabic داود Dāʾūd or Dāwūd . The name comes from the West Semitic DWD . It appears in the form twti as the name of a foreigner on an Egyptian stele from around 1750 BC. Chr.

Before the 1930s, the name David was rarely given in Germany. Its popularity gradually grew in the 1970s and 80s. In 2004 he was among the ten most popular boy names.

Name days

• 1st March
• June 26th
• 26th of August
• 11th December
• December 29th
• 24th of December

variants

• Arabic: Da'oud / Daoud (داود), Daud
• aseri: Davud
• Armenian: Davith (Դավիթ)
• Bosniak: David
• Chinese (traditional):大衛
• Chinese (simplified):大卫
• English: David; Short forms: Dave, Davey , Davy
• esperanto: Davido
• Finnish: Daavid
• French: David
• furlanic: Davide
• Gaelic: Davy
• Georgian : Dawit (დავით)
• Greek: Davíd (Δαβίδ)
• Hebrew: Dawid
• hindi: दाऊद (Dāūd), डेविड (Ḍēviḍ)
• Indonesian: Daud
• Icelandic: Davíð
• Italian: Davide, David
• Japanese:ダ ビ デ
• Yiddish: Dovid
• Korean: 다윗
• Croatian: David
• Kurdish: Dawid
• Latvian: Dāvids, also Dāvis
• Lithuanian: Dovydas , Deividas
• Malay: ദാവീദ്
• Macedonian: David (Давид)
• Polish: Dawid
• Persian: Dāvud (داوود)
• Romansh: David; Short form: Duff (actually Rudolf )
• Russian: Dawid (Дави́д), also Dawyd (Давыд)
• Serbian: David (Давид)
• Slovak: Dávid
• Spanish: David
• thai:เดวิด
• Turkish: Davut
• Hungarian: Dávid
• urdu: داؤد
• Welsh: Dafydd
• Belarusian: Dawid (Давыд)

The female forms are Davida or Davina. Davia is just a rare derivative.

Name bearer

• David (Neoplatonist) (also: David of Armenia, David the Invincible), philosopher, 6th century
• David Scholasticus , Irish Scottish chaplain and scholar in the early 12th century

→ see also the list of rulers named David

Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A.

• David Abraham (actor) ( David Abraham Cheulkar ; 1909–1981), Indian actor
• David Abraham (historian) (* 1946), American historian and legal scholar
• David Abraham (media manager) (* 1963), British media manager
• David Abraham (soccer player) ( David Ángel Abraham ; * 1986), Italian-Argentinian soccer player
• David Abudarham , Jewish scholar who lived and worked in Seville around 1350
• David Adams (tennis player) (born 1970), South African tennis player
• David Alaba (* 1992), Austrian soccer player
• David Allison (* 1873; † unknown), French-English football player
• David Andersson (* 1981), Swedish orienteer
• Dave Arneson (1947–2009), American game developer
• David Arquette (born 1971), American actor

B.

• David Bach (* 1971), American poker player
• David P. Barash (* 1946), American psychologist
• David Barišić (* 1997), Croatian football player
• David Bautista (* 1969), American wrestler and film actor
• David Beckham (* 1975), English football player
• David Beckmann (* 2000), German racing car driver
• David Bellos (* 1945), British literary scholar and translator
• David Bennent (* 1966), Swiss actor
• David Bergen (born 1957), Canadian writer
• David Blaine (* 1973), American magician and street mage
• David Boreanaz (born 1969), American actor
• David Bowie (1947-2016), British singer and musician
• David Brickhill-Jones (* 1981), British orienteer
• Dawid Ionowitsch Bronstein (1924-2006), Soviet chess grandmaster
• David Broome (* 1940), British show jumper
• Dave Brubeck (1920–2012), American jazz pianist and band leader
• David Burgess (* 1977), Canadian ice hockey player
• David Butz (born 1950), American football player

C.

• David Cameron (* 1966), British Prime Minister
• Dave Canterbury (* 1963), American adventurer and boy scout
• David Carradine (1936–2009), American actor
• David Cass (1937–2008), American economist
• David Cassidy (1950–2017), American actor and singer
• David Charvet (born 1972), American actor and singer
• David Copperfield (Magician) ( David Seth Kotkin ; * 1956), American illusionist
• David Coulthard (* 1971), Scottish Formula 1 racing driver
• David Coverdale (born 1951), British hard rock singer ( Whitesnake )
• David Cronenberg (* 1943), Canadian director
• David de la Cruz (* 1989), Spanish cyclist

D.

• Dave Davies (born 1947), British guitarist
• David Degen (* 1983), Swiss football player
• David Duchovny (born 1960), American actor
• Dave Dudley (1928–2003), American country singer
• David Dundas (* 1945), British musician and actor
• David Dunn (politician) (1811-1894), American politician
• David Dunn (soccer player) (* 1979), English soccer player and coach

E.

• David Eagleman (* 1971), American neuroscientist
• David Easton (1917–2014), Canadian-American political scientist
• David Eberhard (* 1966), Swedish psychiatrist and author
• David Ebershoff (* 1969), American writer
• David Eckstein (* 1975), American baseball player
• David Eddy (* around 1945), English badminton player
• David Eggby (born 1950), British cameraman
• David Ellefson (born 1964), American musician
• David Ellett (born 1964), Canadian ice hockey player
• David Essex (born 1947), British singer and actor
• David Etxebarria (* 1973), Spanish cyclist

F.

• David Ferrer (* 1982), Spanish tennis player
• Dave Finbow (* 1968), English snooker player
• David Fincher (born 1962), American director
• Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), German painter

G

• David Gabai (* 1954), American mathematician
• David Gahan (born 1962), British musician
• David Garrett (* 1980), German-American violinist
• David Garrick (actor) (1717–1779), British actor
• David Garrick (pop singer) (1945-2013), British pop singer
• David Garrick , known as David Byron (1947–1985), British rock musician
• David de Gea (* 1990), Spanish football player
• David Gilly (1748–1808), Prussian builder
• David Gleirscher (* 1994), Austrian luge rider
• David Gray (poet) (1838–1861), Scottish poet
• David Gray (journalist) (1927-1983), British sports journalist
• David Gray (musician) (* 1968), British musician
• David Gray (snooker player) (born 1979), English snooker player
• David Gray (soccer player, 1988) (born 1988), Scottish soccer player
• David Greaves (1946-2019), English snooker player
• David Wark Griffith (1875–1948), American actor
• David Eric Grohl (* 1969), American musician
• David Groß (* 1978), Austrian filmmaker, journalist and activist
• David Grossman (* 1954), Israeli writer
• David Guetta (* 1967), French house DJ and producer
• David Guion (* 1967), French football player and coach
• David Ben Gurion (1886–1973), Israeli politician

H

• David Hamilton (1933–2016), British photographer and director
• Dávid Hancko (* 1997), Slovak football player
• David Hansen (singer) (born 1981), Australian singer (countertenor and mezzo-soprano)
• David Hansen (handball player) (* 1991), German handball player
• David Harbor (born 1975), American actor
• David Harrer (* 1990), Austrian soccer player
• David Hasselhoff (* 1952), American actor and singer
• Johann David Heegewaldt (1773–1850), benefactor of the social sector in Berlin
• David Hemblen (* before 1974), British-Canadian actor
• David Hempleman-Adams (* 1956), British entrepreneur and adventurer
• David Hilbert (1862–1943), German mathematician
• David von Himmerod (* around 1100, † 1179), Italian-German monk and mystic
• David Hockney (born 1937), British artist
• David Huggins (* 1959), British author and illustrator
• David Hume (1711–1776), Scottish philosopher and historian

J

• David Jarolím (* 1979), Czech football player
• David John (* 1984), Welsh snooker player

K

• David Kelly (microbiologist) (1944-2003), British microbiologist, bioweapons expert and advisor to the London Department of Defense
• David Patrick Kelly (born 1951), American actor
• David Kindt (1580–1652), German painter
• David Kitt (* 1975), Irish musician
• David Krammer (* 1988), German handball player
• David Kross (* 1990), German actor
• David Krummenacker (* 1975), American athlete

L.

• David LaChapelle (born 1963 or 1969), American photographer
• David Lama (1990–2019), Austrian sport climber and alpinist
• David Jude Heyworth Law , real name of Jude Law (* 1972), British actor
• David Leslie (1953–2008), British racing driver and television commentator
• David Letterman (born 1947), American presenter and producer
• David ben Samuel ha-Levi (around 1586–1667), Polish Jewish scholar and dean
• David Levithan (* 1972), American writer and editor
• David H. Levy (* 1948), American astronomer
• David Livingstone (1813–1873), English explorer
• David "Dave" Lombardo (* 1965), American musician
• David Lynch (* 1946), American film director
• David Lean (1908-1991), British film director
• David Luschnat (1895–1984), German writer

M.

• David Manders (born 1941), American football player
• David McAllister (* 1971), German politician (CDU), Prime Minister of Lower Saxony
• L. David Mech (* 1937), American biologist
• David Meier (theologian) (1572–1640), also: David Meyer , German theologian, writer and historian
• David Meier (musician) (* 1985), Swiss jazz musician
• David Meier (actor) (* 1996), German actor
• David Mendes (lawyer) (* 1962), Angolan lawyer and politician
• David Mendes (soccer player) ( David Mendes da Silva ; * 1982), Dutch soccer player

N

• David Nalbandian (* 1982), Argentinian tennis player
• Dave Navarro (* 1967), American musician
• David Needham (born 1949), English football player
• David Neres (* 1997), Brazilian soccer player
• David Nerman (* 19 **), Canadian actor
• David Niven (1910–1983), British actor

O

• David Odonkor (* 1984), German soccer player
• David Ortega (actor) ( David Ortega Arenas ; * 1985), German amateur actor
• Dawid Fjodorowitsch Oistrach (1908–1974), Soviet violinist

P

• David Paymer (born 1954), American actor
• David Pell (* 1980), Australian cyclist
• David Peters (poker player) (* 1987), American poker player
• David Platt (* 1966), English football player
• David Poisson (1982-2017), French ski racer
• David Prill (born 1959), American writer

R.

• David Raya (* 1995), Spanish soccer player
• David Rheem (* 1980), American poker player
• David Richter the Elder (1661–1735), Swedish-German portrait and landscape painter
• Dawid Borissowitsch Ryazanow (1870–1938), Russian Marxist and archivist
• David Lee Roth (born 1954), US singer in the band Van Halen
• David Rundblad (* 1990), Swedish ice hockey player

S.

• David Sacco (* 1971), American ice hockey player
• Jerome David Salinger (1919-2010), American writer
• David Sanborn (* 1945), American saxophonist
• David Sander (1867–1939), German rabbi
• David Sands (born 1984 or 1985), American poker player
• David Schartner (* 1988), Austrian football goalkeeper
• David Schmidt (* 1993), German handball player
• David Schwimmer (born 1966), American actor
• David Sinclair , known as Dave Sinclair (* 1947), is a British pianist, keyboardist, composer and singer
• David A. Sinclair (* 1969), Australian biologist and university professor
• David Spaeth (* 1975), German film director and author
• David Spiro (1901-1970), rabbi

T

• David Thomas (politician, 1762) , American lawyer and politician
• David Thomas (Author) (pseudonym Tom Cain ; * 1959), British journalist and writer
• David Thomas (musician) , British musician
• David Clayton-Thomas (* 1941), Canadian musician
• Dawid Tomaszewski (* 1979), Polish-German fashion designer and designer
• David Trezeguet (born 1977), French football player
• David Trueba (* 1969), Spanish writer, journalist, screenwriter, actor and director
• Dawid Fjodorowitsch Tuchmanow (* 1940), Russian composer

W.

• David Weir (football player, 1863) (1863-1933), English football player and coach
• David Weir (soccer player, 1970) (born 1970), Scottish soccer player and coach
• David Weiss (1946–2012), Swiss artist, see Peter Fischli and David Weiss
• David Ricardo Williams (1923–1999), Canadian lawyer, historian and writer
• Dave “Fat Man” Williams (1920–1982), American pianist and singer
• David Henry Wilson (* 1937), British author for children and young people
• David Sloan Wilson (* 1949), American evolutionary biologist
• David Wilson (* 1884), Scottish football player and coach
• David Witteveen (* 1985), Austrian soccer player
• David F. Wnendt (* 1977), German film director and screenwriter
• David Wong (jazz musician) (* ≈1980), American jazz musician
• David Woodard (born 1964), American businessman

Z

• David Zwilling (* 1949), Austrian ski racer

See also

• List of rulers named David
• Davidians

Web links

Wiktionary: David  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ David on behindthename.com (Engl.)
2. ^ KA Kitchen: Non-Egyptians recorded on Middle-Kingdom Stelae in Rio de Janeiro , In: Middle Kingdom Studies , edited by. S. Quirke, Whiystable 1991, p. 88
3. ↑ Statistics "Popular first names"