David


Gender:
Origin: Hebrew
19881 famous people named David found on Wikipedia.
3620916 male, 12906 female in US.
Most recent ranking: 22-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 1st in year 1960
Used in: Biblical, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Macedonian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Scottish, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish

Meanings

A male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “beloved.”.

David is a common masculine given name of Biblical Hebrew origin, as King David is a character of central importance in the Hebrew Bible and in both Christian and Jewish religious tradition.
Hebrew: דָּוִד, Modern David, Tiberian Dāwîḏ has the meaning of "beloved", from a root דּוֹד dôwd, which had an etymological meaning of "to boil", but survives in Biblical Hebrew only in figurative usage "to love" and specifically a term for an uncle (father's brother). In Christian tradition, the name was adopted as Syriac: ܕܘܝܕ‎ Dawid, Greek Δαυίδ, Latin Davidus. The Quranic spelling is داوُد Dāwūd.
David was adopted as a Christian name from an early period, e.g. David of Wales (6th century), David Saharuni (7th century), David I of Iberia (9th century). Name days are celebrated on 8 February (for David IV of Georgia), 1 March (for St. David of Wales) and 29 December (for King David), as well as 25 June (St. David of Sweden), 26 June, 9 July (Russia), 26 August, 11 December and 30 December (Hungary, Latvia, Norway).

Masc. proper name, in Old Testament second king of Israel and Judah and author of psalms, from Hebrew Dawidh, literally "darling, beloved friend." The name was common in England and Scotland by 12c., but much earlier in Wales. A nickname form was Dawe, hence surnames Dawson, Dawkins. A top 10 list name for boys born in the U.S. from 1934 to 1992.

Beloved.

Famous People: 19881 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 David Bowie 1947 British musician, actor, record producer and arranger
2 David Beckham 1975 English footballer
3 David Cameron 1966 British politician and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
4 David Attenborough 1926 British broadcaster and naturalist
5 David Schwimmer 1966 Actor, producer, director
6 David Tennant 1971 Scottish actor
7 David Duchovny 1960 US-American actor
8 David Foster Wallace 1962 America fiction writer and essayist
9 David Lynch 1946 American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor
10 David Walliams 1971 English comedian, writer and actor
11 David Carradine 1936 American actor and martial artist
12 David Arquette 1971 Actor and director from the United States
13 David Rockefeller 1915 American banker and philanthropist
14 David Packouz 1982
15 Larry David 1947 American comedian, writer, actor, and television producer
16 David Spade 1964 American stand-up comedian
17 David Thewlis 1963 British actor
18 David Foster 1949 Canadian musician, record producer, songwriter
19 David Hasselhoff 1952 American actor, singer, producer, and businessman
20 David Duke 1950 American White nationalist, writer, right-wing politician, and a former Republican Louisiana State Representative
21 David Hahn 1976 United States marine
22 David Haye 1980 British boxer
23 David Person in Hebrew Bible and Old Testament
24 David Gilmour 1946 Guitarist, singer, best known as a member of Pink Floyd
25 David McCallum 1933 Scottish actor and musician
26 David Miscavige 1960 Leader of the Church of Scientology
27 David Boreanaz 1969 American actor, famous for Angel and Buffy
28 David Berkowitz 1953 Serial killer
29 David Blaine 1973 American illusionist and endurance artist
30 David Ortiz 1975 Dominican-American professional baseball player, designated hitter
31 David Cross 1964 American comedian, writer and actor
32 David Guetta 1967 French house music producer and disc jockey
33 David Fincher 1962 American film director
34 David Petraeus 1952 Retired American military officer and public official
35 David Letterman 1947 American comedian and actor
36 David Cassidy 1950 American actor and musician
37 Rodrigo Vite 1990 Peruano footballer
38 David Niven 1910 English actor and novelist
39 David Villa 1982 Spanish footballer
40 David Harbour 1974 American actor
41 David Prowse 1935 English bodybuilder, weightlifter, and actor
42 David Jason 1940 Actor from England
43 David Ross 1977 American baseball player, catcher
44 David Hyde Pierce 1959 American actor
45 Keith David 1956 American actor
46 David Burtka 1975 Arbick
47 David Icke 1952 British conspiracy theorist
48 David Koresh 1959 American religious leader
49 David Robinson 1965 American basketball player
50 David Gest 1953 American producer and entertainer
51 David Krumholtz 1978 American actor
52 David Hume 1711 Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian
53 David Luiz 1987 Brazilian footballer
54 David Muir 1973 American journalist
55 David Oyelowo 1976 British actor
56 David Lee Roth 1954 Rock vocalist; lead singer with Van Halen
57 David Reimer 1965 Boy raised as girl following botched surgery
58 David Otunga 1980 American professional wrestler, lawyer, and actor
59 David Morse 1953 American actor
60 David Carr 1979 American football player, quarterback
61 Craig David 1981 English singer
62 David Draiman 1973 American singer and songwriter
63 Ziva David 1982 Fictional character
64 David Benioff 1970 Writer
65 David Ayer 1968 American screenwriter, film producer, and director
66 David Cronenberg 1943 Canadian film director, screenwriter and actor
67 David Copperfield 1956 American illusionist
68 David Morrissey 1964 English actor and director
69 David Wenham 1965 Australian actor
70 David Hornsby 1975 American actor
71 David Irving 1938 British writer and Holocaust denier
72 David Byrne 1952 Scottish alternative rock musician and promoter of world music
73 David Parker Ray 1939 American serial killer
74 David Ogden Stiers 1942 American actor
75 David Henrie 1989 American actor
76 David Caruso 1956 Actor
77 David Silva 1986 Spanish footballer
78 David Alaba 1992 Austrian footballer
79 David Crosby 1941 Guitarist, singer and songwriter from the United States
80 David Lloyd George 1863 British Liberal politician and statesman
81 David Geffen 1943 American record executive, film producer, theatrical producer, and philanthropist
82 David Suchet 1946 English actor
83 David Ruffin 1941 Singer, musician
84 David Moyes 1963 Association football player and manager
85 David Faustino 1974 American actor and rap artist
86 David Giuntoli 1980 Actor
87 David Sedaris 1956 American author
88 David Lee 1983 American basketball player
89 David Harewood 1965 Actor
90 David Livingstone 1813 Scottish explorer and missionary
91 David Flair 1979 American professional wrestler
92 David Bradley 1942 British actor
93 David West 1980 American basketball player
94 David Mazouz 2001 Actor
95 David O. Russell 1958 American film director, screenwriter, and film producer
96 David Allan Coe 1939 Country music artist
97 David Hockney 1937 British artist
98 David Denman 1973 American actor
99 David Dhawan 1955 Indian film director
100 David Coverdale 1951 English singer
101 David Strathairn 1949 American actor
102 David E. Kelley 1956 Television producer, writer, attorney
103 David Koechner 1962 Actor, comedian
104 David Yost 1969 American actor
105 David Yates 1963 English filmmaker
106 David Warner 1941 British actor
107 David Archuleta 1990 American pop singer
108 David Gandy 1980 British model
109 David A. Siegel 1935 American entrepreneur
110 David Ben-Gurion 1886 Israeli politician, zionist leader, prime minister of Israel
111 David Mamet 1947 American playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and film director
112 David Alan Grier 1956 American actor and comedian
113 David Trezeguet 1977 French footballer
114 David Blatt 1959 American basketball player and coach
115 David Frost 1939 English journalist, comedian, writer, media personality and daytime TV game show host
116 David Justice 1966 American professional baseball player, outfielder
117 David Soul 1943 American actor-singer
118 David Lemieux 1988 Canadian boxer
119 David Axelrod 1955 American political consultant
120 David Patrick Kelly 1951 American actor, born 1951
121 David Souter 1939 Judge of the United States of America
122 David Baldacci 1960 American author
123 David Costabile 1967 American actor
124 David Johansen 1950 American singer
125 David Anders 1981 Actor
126 David H. Koch 1940 American businessman, philanthropist, political activist, and chemical engineer
127 David Davis 1948 British Conservative Party politician and former businessman
128 David Johnson 1991 American football player, born 1991
129 David Furnish 1962 Canadian filmmaker
130 David Ramsey 1971 American actor
131 David Coulthard 1971 British Formula One racing driver
132 David Horowitz 1939 Neoconservative activist, writer
133 David Headley 1960 Pakistani American convicted terrorist
134 David Sharp 1972 British mountain climber
135 David Sutcliffe 1969 Canadian actor
136 David Ricardo 1772 British political economist, broker and politician
137 David Canary 1938 American actor
138 David Ferrer 1982 Spanish tennis player
139 David Simon 1960 American writer
140 Jacques-Louis David 1748 French Neoclassical painter
141 David Essex 1947 Actor, Singer, Song Writer
142 David Banner 1974 American rapper
143 David Ospina 1988 Colombian footballer
144 David Gregory 1970 American television journalist and presenter
145 David Walton 1978 American actor
146 David Hilbert 1862 German prominent mathematician
147 David A. Stewart 1952 English musician, songwriter and record producer
148 Laurie David 1958 American activist
149 David Charvet 1972 French singer, actor, model and television personality
150 David S. Goyer 1965 American screenwriter, film director, novelist, and comic book writer
151 David LaBrava 1962 American actor
152 David James Elliott 1960 Actor
153 David Chang 1977 American chef
154 David Keith 1954 Actor, director
155 David McCullough 1933 American historian and author
156 David Seaman 1963 English footballer
157 David Fumero 1972 Cuban-American actor and former male fashion model
158 David Saxe 1969 American theatre owner and producer
159 David Johnston 1941 Governor General of Canada
160 David Hayter 1969 A Canadian-American voice and screen actor and screenwriter
161 David Eisenhower 1948 American writer
162 David Brock 1962 American journalist
163 David Gallagher 1985 American actor
164 David Zayas 1962 Puerto Rican actor
165 David Moscow 1974 American actor
166 David Bale 1941 English businessperson
167 David Mitchell 1969 English novelist
168 David Huddleston 1930 American actor
169 David Wright 1982 American baseball player
170 David Kennedy 1955 Fourth of John F. Kennedy's children
171 David Janssen 1931 American actor
172 David Feherty 1958 Professional golfer, broadcaster, writer
173 David Miliband 1965 British politician
174 David Threlfall 1953 English stage, film and television actor and director
175 David Thornton 1953 American actor
176 David Rockefeller, Jr. 1941 American sailor and philanthropist
177 David Goffin 1990 Belgian tennis player
178 David Cook 1982 American musician
179 David Suzuki 1936 Canadian popular scientist and environmental activist
180 David Lambert 1993 American actor
181 David Frum 1960 American political commentator
182 David Brent
183 David Lean 1908 English film director, producer, screenwriter and editor
184 David Dimbleby 1938 British commentator and a presenter
185 David Kelly 1944 British weapons expert
186 Karen David 1979 Canadian-British actress, singer and songwriter
187 David Pollack 1982 All-American college football player, professional football player, linebacker
188 David Price 1983 English professional boxer
189 David Nugent 1985 English footballer
190 David Graf 1950 American actor (1950–2001)
191 David Vitter 1961 U.S. Senator from Louisiana
192 David Wain 1969 American writer, director, actor and comedian
193 David Nelson 1936 American actor, director, producer (1936-2011)
194 David DeLuise 1971 American actor
195 David Nathan 1971 German voice actor
196 David Wagner 1971 German footballer
197 David Dawson 1982 English actor
198 David Boudia 1989 American diver
199 David Dastmalchian 1984 American actor
200 David Farragut 1801 United States Navy admiral