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David is a common English male given name and surname.

The name "David" (generally pronounced "DAY-vid" in modern English, but also pronounced "Da-VEED" in other languages, such as those similar to - or originating from - Latin) is derived from the Biblical Hebrew name דָּוִד (Standard Hebrew: Dávid; Tiberian Hebrew: Dāwiḏ), meaning "Beloved." The name occurs over 1000 times in the Hebrew Bible, making it the third most often-occurring name, after Moses and Abraham.

The Arabic and Persian versions are Daud (pronounced " Da-ood") and Dawood (pronounced " Da-wood"), respectively. Both versions are used in Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali and also in Indonesia and Malayasia among Muslim families. The Quran has many references to Daud.

The old English and Irish version is Dowd, hence O'Dowd, suggesting an earlier export of Arabic Daud, via Moorish and Black Irish connections, to England and Ireland.

Name days are celebrated on March 1 (for St. David of Wales) and December 29 (for King David), as well as June 25 (St. David of Sweden), June 26, August 26, December 11, and December 30 (Norway).

David is often shortened to "Davey/Davie/Davy" (additionally, in Wales, such variants as "Dafydd" and "Dewi" and such diminutives as "Dai", "Daf" and "Taff/Taffy" are fairly common, although "Dai" was formerly a name in its own right, meaning "shining" in Welsh, prior to the reign of King Henry VII). The oldest, most popular and most commonly-used diminutive form of "David" worldwide is "Dave", which first appeared in written form in the sixteenth century (but is probably much older). "Dave" is preferred by many people born "David" to the full name because it is considered more "friendly" and "informal", and also disliked by many other "Davids" on the opinion that it is too "laddish" or "loutish". There have been a handful of occurrences of the name "Dave" being used as a birth name in its own right in the 20th Century, although is very rare.[citation needed]

Another less common variant is "Daveth", the origin of which is uncertain (but could be an anglicied form of the Welsh "Dafydd").

Female equivalents of the name David include "Davida" (no longer in common usage) and "Davina", the latter of which is very popular in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The girl's name "Davinia" may also have originated from David, though some have argued it is actually the female version of the Gaelic name 'Devin.'

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