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The name David is of Hebrew origin, and means beloved. The table below indicates the number of times the name David has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name David**
Use of the Name David for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
3,423,396	2,324,870	729,798	202,683	93,888	36,461	18,014

The table below indicates the number of times the name David has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name David**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	18	871	977	4
1881	18	751
1882	19	838
1883	20	736	843	6
1884	21	762
1885	22	712
1886	24	674
1887	22	675	807	9
1888	21	801
1889	22	757
1890	26	731
1891	26	673
1892	24	813
1893	27	725
1894	29	730
1895	32	708
1896	27	767
1897	29	731
1898	30	815
1899	32	648
1900	32	897
1901	30	673
1902	30	761
1903	33	716
1904	31	818
1905	32	839
1906	31	877
1907	31	947
1908	30	1,018
1909	29	1,095
1910	30	1,259
1911	27	1,552
1912	29	2,857
1913	29	3,281
1914	29	4,246
1915	31	5,399
1916	28	5,817
1917	28	6,102
1918	28	6,635
1919	27	6,731
1920	25	7,438
1921	25	7,777
1922	25	7,852
1923	24	8,223
1924	23	8,765
1925	22	8,914
1926	22	9,032	999	56
1927	21	9,420	986	60
1928	19	9,963	896	67
1929	17	11,290	820	74
1930	15	12,253	751	87
1931	13	11,766	927	56
1932	12	12,120	943	56
1933	13	11,985	843	63
1934	12	13,985	777	75
1935	11	15,657	894	60
1936	10	17,476	951	52
1937	8	20,967	820	70
1938	8	22,982	892	63
1939	7	25,373	706	93
1940	7	27,670	760	84
1941	7	30,488	725	95
1942	6	35,903	701	113
1943	6	37,109	741	110
1944	6	37,245	758	101
1945	6	37,093	791	90
1946	6	46,261	819	102
1947	6	57,620	823	113
1948	5	56,513	775	122
1949	6	59,460	804	116
1950	5	60,694	730	137
1951	5	64,584	924	99
1952	5	71,746	761	137
1953	5	75,976	742	151
1954	5	79,488	756	151
1955	2	86,072	784	151
1956	4	81,527	784	158
1957	3	82,235	772	168
1958	2	82,507	691	205
1959	2	83,888	649	239
1960	1	85,884	685	221
1961	2	84,666	676	235
1962	2	81,241	579	290
1963	3	78,457	658	235
1964	3	74,994	647	250
1965	3	67,848	667	218
1966	2	66,372	627	232
1967	2	66,748	559	282
1968	2	63,669	593	263
1969	2	63,675	576	294
1970	3	61,683	604	289
1971	3	53,059	638	259
1972	4	46,314	641	238
1973	5	41,059	663	224
1974	4	41,739	650	234
1975	5	39,118	646	237
1976	4	39,236	671	227
1977	4	40,476	647	251
1978	4	40,607	656	245
1979	4	41,998	618	284
1980	4	41,825	623	293
1981	5	40,569	737	223
1982	5	40,369	703	249
1983	4	39,127	566	321
1984	5	38,414	706	235
1985	6	38,457	640	291
1986	5	37,055	671	273
1987	5	36,723	715	254
1988	6	35,227	746	250
1989	5	35,170
1990	6	33,680
1991	8	30,367
1992	10	28,356
1993	11	26,966
1994	13	24,810
1995	16	22,978
1996	13	22,950
1997	14	21,818
1998	13	20,802
1999	16	20,247
2000	16	19,664
2001	12	19,231
2002	13	18,532
2003	14	18,447
2004	14	18,014
Totals:		3,423,396		10,990

During the last 125 years, parents have used David as a boy's name about 99% of the time and less frequently (about 0% of the time) as a girl's name.

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