Dave

5,994 people in the United States were counted with the surname Dave in the 2020 census, making it the 5,598th most common in the country. That is about one person in 49,900.

By the numbers

People: 5,994
Rank: 5,598th
How common: 1 in 49,900
Per 100,000: 2.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Gujarati

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 81.7%
Black, not Hispanic 7.0%
White, not Hispanic 6.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Hispanic or Latino 1.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%

Notable people called Dave

Dave Dave (1976–2018)American artist and burn survivor
Dave (born 1998)British rapper
Ketki Dave (born 1960)Indian actress

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

Surnames like Dave

Also a first name

Dave has been given to 64,492 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1959. 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.