David

45,954 people in the United States were counted with the surname David in the 2020 census, making it the 732nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 6,504.

By the numbers

People: 45,954
Rank: 732nd
How common: 1 in 6,504
Per 100,000: 15.4

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname David described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 53.7%
Black, not Hispanic 16.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 16.1%
Hispanic or Latino 8.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.7%

Notable people called David

Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825)French painter
Larry David (born 1947)American comedian, writer and actor
Craig David (born 1981)British singer
Alexandra David-Néel (1868–1969)French explorer, spiritualist, Buddhist, Taoist, anarchist and writer
Jonathan David (born 2000)Canadian soccer player
Damiano David (born 1999)Italian singer-songwriter
Anne-Marie David (born 1952)French singer
Saint David (512–589)patron saint of Wales

People named David with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like David

Also a first name

David has been given to 3,689,613 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1955. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.