Boy
Dave
Rooted in Hebrew, Dave is a boy's name that means "Hebrew, beloved". It had its heyday in the 1960s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. It has appeared in U.S. birth records in nearly every decade since 1900, a genuinely long run.
EtymologyShort for David
HebrewHebrew – "beloved"
Births by decade
1900s
1,133
1910s
2,730
1920s
3,444
1930s
4,826
1940s
11,766
1950s
14,862
1960s
15,806
1970s
2,593
1980s
1,511
1990s
1,105
2000s
986
2010s
574
Peaked in the 1960s · 61,336 total U.S. births since 1900