Daviel
Of Biblical Hebrew origin, meaning "beloved of God."
Name Census estimates that about 369 living Americans carry the first name Daviel. The name is used almost exclusively for boys. The average person named Daviel today is around 14 years old, and the year with the single highest number of Daviel births was 2022 (25 babies).
This page is the full Name Census profile for Daviel. Below you will find a gender breakdown showing how the name splits between male and female registrations, a year-by-year popularity chart stretching back to 1880, decade-level totals, the top US states for this name, its meaning and etymology, and a set of frequently asked questions with data-backed answers.
People living today
369
~ 1 in 928,874 Americans
Peak year
2022
25 babies that year
Average age
14
years old
2024 SSA rank
#5,954
Tracked since 1982
Census
Daviel in the 2020 Census
The 2020 Census recorded 402 people with the first name Daviel, which placed it at #24,093 in the published first-name tables. This is a snapshot of people who already had the name at the time of the Census.
The SSA sections elsewhere on this page answer a different question: how often parents gave the name to babies over time. The "people living today" figure on this page is different again: it is a current estimate built from SSA birth records and age-based survival rates, so the two numbers are not expected to match exactly.
2020 Census rank
#24,093
National first-name rank
People counted
402
402 in the published race/origin table
Per 100,000
0.1
People with this name in 2020
Largest reported group
Hispanic or Latino
79.9% of people with this name
Demographics
Ancestry and ethnicity for Daviel
In the 2020 Census race and Hispanic-origin table, the largest reported group for people named Daviel is Hispanic at 79.9%. The next largest groups are Black (10.2%) and White (7.7%). These figures describe the people who had the name in 2020, not any inherent property of the name itself.
The bar chart below shows how people with the first name Daviel described their own race and ethnicity on the 2020 Census form. The Census Bureau groups responses into six broad categories: White, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, Asian and Pacific Islander, American Indian and Alaska Native, and Two or More Races. When a category has too few respondents for a given name, the Bureau suppresses the figure to protect individual privacy, which is why some names show fewer than six slices.
Percentages are shown so the breakdown is easy to read across every published category. Because the 2020 Census first-name file also includes raw headcounts for each group, Name Census can show those alongside the percentages in the legend and hover tooltip.
Keep in mind that these are self-reported numbers. A first name does not determine a person's race or ethnicity, and the distribution you see here reflects the specific population who happened to carry the name Daviel at the time of the 2020 Census, not any inherent property of the name itself.
- Hispanic or Latino79.9% · 321
- Black or African American10.2% · 41
- White7.7% · 31
- Two or more races1.7% · 7
- Asian and Pacific Islander0.5% · 2
Popularity
Daviel: popularity over time
The SSA tracks Daviel from the 1980s through to the 2020s, spanning 5 decades of birth certificate data. The biggest single decade for the name was the 2010s, with 160 total registrations. Although the numbers have come down from the 2010s peak, Daviel remains solidly in use and shows no sign of disappearing from maternity wards.
Babies born per year
Decades
Daviel by decade
The table below breaks the full SSA timeline into ten-year windows. Each row shows how many male and female babies were given the name Daviel during that decade, along with a combined total. This is useful for spotting eras where the name surged or retreated.
Geography
Where Daviels live
The SSA's state-level files cover 4 states and territories. New York, Florida, New Jersey recorded the most babies named Daviel, while Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Florida recorded the fewest. The average across all reporting states is about 7 registrations each.
Origin
Meaning and history of Daviel
The given name Daviel is believed to have its origins in the Hebrew language. It is a combination of the Hebrew words "dov" meaning "bear" and "el" meaning "God". Daviel can thus be interpreted as "bear of God" or "God's bear".
The name is thought to have first emerged in ancient Israelite culture, possibly as early as the 6th century BCE. It may have been inspired by references to bears in the Hebrew Bible, such as the story of the prophet Elisha being confronted by bears in 2 Kings 2:24.
No definitive historical records exist of the name's earliest use, but it is believed to have been relatively uncommon in ancient times. The first recorded instance of the name Daviel may be a Jewish merchant from the city of Tyre mentioned in a 3rd century BCE Phoenician inscription.
In the Middle Ages, the name appears to have been used sporadically by Jewish communities across Europe and the Mediterranean region. One notable bearer was Daviel ben Judah, a 12th century Jewish scholar and philosopher from Andalusia in modern-day Spain.
The Renaissance saw a resurgence in the use of biblical names, including Daviel. A famous example is Daviel Revel, a 16th century French Huguenot leader and military commander who fought in the French Wars of Religion (1562-1598).
Other historical figures named Daviel include Daviel Burr, an American Revolutionary War soldier from Connecticut (1736-1810), and Daviel Mendoza, a 19th century Sephardic Jewish poet and writer from Gibraltar (1822-1886).
In more recent times, the French ophthalmologist Jacques Daviel (1696-1762) is renowned for pioneering the procedure of extracapsular cataract extraction, which became a standard surgical technique for over 200 years.
People
Daviel + last name combinations
How many people share a full name with Daviel as the first name? Click a combination below to see the estimate, or search any pairing.
Related
Other names starting with D
Other first names starting with D with a similar number of bearers.
FAQ
Daviel: questions and answers
How many people in the U.S. are named Daviel?
Name Census puts the figure at roughly 369 living Americans. We arrive at this by taking every SSA birth registration for Daviel going back to 1880 and adjusting each cohort for expected survival using CDC actuarial life tables. The result is an age-weighted living-bearer count, not a raw birth total. That works out to about 1 in 928,874 US residents.
Is Daviel a common name?
We classify Daviel as "Very Rare". It ranks above 81.5% of all first names in the SSA dataset by living bearers. Across the full history of the data, 373 babies have been registered with this name.
When was Daviel most popular?
The single biggest year for Daviel was 2022, when 25 babies received the name. The fact that the average living Daviel is about 14 years old gives you a rough sense of which era contributed the most bearers who are still alive today.
How common was Daviel in the 2020 Census?
The published 2020 Census first-name tables recorded 402 people with the name Daviel, or 0.13 per 100,000 residents. That placed it at #24,093 in the national Census ranking for first names.
Why is the Census count different from the living estimate?
Because they measure different things. The Census figure is a count of people who had the name Daviel in 2020. The living estimate aims to answer a current question instead: how many people with the name are alive today, based on SSA birth records and age-based survival rates. Since one number is a 2020 snapshot and the other is a present-day estimate, they are not expected to be identical.
What does the Census say about the gender split for Daviel?
In the 2020 Census sex table, Daviel leans strongly male. 378 people counted with this name were male (95.2%), compared with 19 female bearers (4.8%). The Census view is a snapshot of people living with the name in 2020, while the SSA section above tracks births across time.
What does the Census say about the background of people named Daviel?
In the 2020 Census race and Hispanic-origin table, the largest reported group for people named Daviel is Hispanic at 79.9%. The next largest groups are Black (10.2%) and White (7.7%). These figures describe the people who had the name in 2020, not any inherent property of the name itself. The percentages in the chart above come from self-reported race and Hispanic-origin responses in the 2020 Census.
Which group reports the name Daviel most often in the Census?
Hispanic is the largest reported group for people named Daviel in the 2020 Census, accounting for 79.9% (321 people in the published table).
Why can the Census sex total and race total differ slightly?
The Census Bureau published separate 2020 tables for sex and for race/Hispanic origin, and the released figures can differ slightly because of privacy protection in the public files. That is why this page treats the gender section and the race/origin section as two related snapshots instead of forcing them into one identical total.
Does every first name have Census demographic data?
No. The public Census first-name release only includes names that met the Bureau's publication rules, so many rarer names in the SSA files have no Census demographic snapshot. When that happens, the SSA trend, gender history, and state sections still appear, but the 2020 Census demographic sections are omitted.
What does the SSA popularity chart show?
The chart tracks births, not the number of people alive with the name today. Each point shows how many babies were given the name Daviel in that year. That makes it useful for spotting when the name rose, peaked, or faded.
Is Daviel a male name?
Yes, 100.0% of people registered as Daviel in the SSA data are male. You can see the full per-sex comparison in the gender distribution section above, which includes the latest year rank, birth count, and peak year for each sex.
Is Daviel still being used today?
Yes. The SSA still recorded Daviel in 2024, and the page above shows its latest-year rank where available. A name can be well past its peak and still remain in steady use, especially if it built up a large population over earlier decades.
Why can a name have a lot of living bearers even if it is not trendy now?
Because living-bearer counts and current baby-name popularity measure different things. A name like Daviel can build up a very large population over many decades, even if fewer parents are choosing it now than they did at its peak.
Where does this data come from?
First-name figures come from the Social Security Administration's national baby name files, which cover every name on a birth certificate from 1880 to 2024. Living-bearer estimates layer in CDC actuarial life tables broken out by sex to account for mortality. The population baseline (342,754,338) is the Census Bureau's latest national estimate. You can read the full calculation on our methodology page.
How many people share the name Daviel?
Find out how many people share the name Daviel on our sister site HowManyOfMe.org — a quick modern estimate with the living-bearer count front and centre.