Dawud as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Dawud

What is the meaning of the name Dawud ?

The baby name Dawud is a Male name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced Arabic: /daːˈwuːd/; Common English approximation: DAH-wood or dah-WOOD.

Dawud is Arabic in Origin.

Dawud (Arabic: داود or داوود, often transliterated Dāwūd) is the Arabic form of the Hebrew name Dāwīd, widely interpreted as “beloved.” In Islamic scripture, Dawud is the prophet-king equivalent to the Biblical David and the recipient of the Zabur (Psalms), which anchored the name’s prestige and spread it across the Arab world and the wider Muslim sphere from the early centuries of Islam.

Variants and spellings reflect regional languages and transcription: Daud, Dawood, Daoud, and Davud in Arabic and Persian contexts; Davut in Turkish; Da’ud in Somali usage; with global cognates David, Davide (Italian), Dávid (Hungarian), Davyd (Ukrainian), and Dafydd (Welsh). The name appears throughout history among scholars and rulers, including the early Sufi ascetic Dawud al-Ta’i and the Ottoman statesman Dawud Pasha of Baghdad. Its steady cross-cultural familiarity makes Dawud both traditional and internationally recognizable.