Talk:David (name)

Importance

 * top importance: this has been assigned due to the top-ranking in Northern Ireland in 1975 --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 17:49, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Taff
Taff as a name for a David. I would question Taff or Taffy being a derivative of David. Taff has always meant to me a slightly offensive term for someone who is welsh. This eould come from the River Taff which flows through Cardiff. Nothing to do with David. NeilsergeNeilsergeant 00:45, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Or you may a look at [] and notice that the sounds /t/ and /d/ are produced almost identically, as well as /f/ and /v/. I think, perhaps, these are simply the way an accent pronounced the name, leading to the use of Tafit or Tafid, then shorted to Taff.  Taffy derives the same way as Davey. - Tom Tolnam 01:08, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Pronunciation of the name David in other languages
At least in Spanish and Catalan, the word David is pronounced "Da-VEED". I should know, my first name is David and I know 3 languages: Spanish, Catalan and English. 128.227.105.153 17:36, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I suspect that was put by a speaker of a non-rhotic dialect of English, where "Dar" would not have an "R" sound at the end. Perhaps since I'm not one, I agree it makes more sense like this. Rigadoun (talk) 21:05, 10 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm Swedish, and I pronounce David as DA-veed, with emphasis on the first syllable (Swedish hard A). Speakers of other languages often emphasize the last syllable and have a soft A, though. Individ (talk) 09:44, 11 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I have lived in Turkiye and was told that my name is Davut in Turkish. I did a search on Google for Hazreti Davut and for Hazreti Davud and the latter yields a few about 20% more results than the former. I have only me one other person named David in English and he spells it the latter way. BTW hazreti is the Turkish word for prophet. Likely the reason that the name David is in so many languages is that it is a Biblical name. David Marshall B.Ed. (talk) 06:48, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Female versions
Is the name "Daveigh" the only example of the use I know is Daveigh Chase, a female version of David?
 * I would guess that a name for which you can only find a single example will frequently be a name that was constructed by the parents; a variant of another name or a combination of names that are significant within the family. However, my experience is that "ad-hoc" creation of given names is not unusual in American culture, but quite uncommon (sometimes even government-regulated) in others. I suppose the ideal would be to ask Daveigh's parents, if possible. Petershank 17:51, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

List of names
What is the purpose of the lists of names in his article? They can never be a complete list of all the "David"s with WP articles (see, so what is the point? I can just about see the merits of a list of people known simply as "David" but I can see no merit in trying to list everyone with the given name "David". (I write this as a "David")  Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 07:14, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I'd agree on the given name, but I found the list of people with the surname David to be useful recently when completing a crossword (speaking as another "David"!). Dave.Dunford (talk) 10:01, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Name Bearers
"The most important bearer of the name is David, the second king of a united Kingdom of Israel and a major figure in the Bible and the Qur'an." I would question this as there is no actual measure for the importance of a person. There is also no reason given for the importance of this particular David. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.209.212.81  (talk • contribs)  10:59, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

As he is the one the name comes from he is the most important David 83.255.53.238 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 09:13, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

Sanskrit Dravid
The name Dravid has no proven connections to David whatsoever.I happen to know some Basic Sanskrit. Dravid was in fact used famously by Adi Shnkaracharya, who called himself Dravida-Putra, meaning son of the place named Dravida. Dravida refers to the southern peninsular part of India. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aquariangospel (talk • contribs) 03:49, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

Taff/Taffy
The article describes these as fairly common diminutives in Wales. I have never heard anyone use these words in Wales as a diminutive for any form of David. They are sometimes used outside Wales as nicknames, pejorative or not, for Welsh people, regardless of the individual's actual name. They are normally accepted as being derived from (bad!) imitations of the Welsh pronunciation of the (previously very common) name "Dafydd", but I have never heard of them being used as diminutives in Wales itself. Just sticking this up in case anyone has any differing opinions/evidence/references instead of altering it straight away.Ceiniog (talk) 03:16, 30 May 2014 (UTC) Oh, and under the "other languages" sections, examples for the Welsh language include "Taffy", which I propose deleting (see above), and "Dewey" (twice). Dewey may be an anglicised spelling of "Dewi" but it is not a Welsh language name- or indeed, as far as I can see, used much in Wales at all. Again, I will delete them unless anyone else has anything to add. Ceiniog (talk) 03:27, 30 May 2014 (UTC) Alterations made.Ceiniog (talk) 02:01, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

Dafydd as a separate article
I came to this page for the Welsh name Dafydd, particularly after reading about Dafydd ap Gwilym. Many names have separate articles on different languages' spelling of the same name, it'd be silly to expect everyone with the name Juan or Jean or Ivan to be listed on the article of John, no? I don't believe Dafydd should be treated akin to a nickname like Dave, but be merely mentioned in this article but link to its own. JesseRafe (talk) 20:37, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

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List of people named David
This was more useful as its own article, so I moved it here, to List_of_people_named_David. Elliot321 (talk) 10:42, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

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Latin "Davidus"
I can't locate this lemma, though I did only a cursory search with my limited resources. The Vulgate, for instance, only uses "David" for the nominative, as do the Church Fathers from my reckoning. Can someone with TLL access see how common "Davidus" actually is?

Alternatively, does anyone know where this etymological claim comes from? It seems strange to me that an indeclinable Greek antecedent would suddenly be forced into the second declension in Latin. I can't find a reliable citation for the relationship. For the record, the same claim is repeated on Wiktionary, again without citation, though Davidus doesn't exist.  anthologetes  ( talk • contribs ) 19:23, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

Statistics
Section needs updating and expansion David notMD (talk) 11:01, 5 October 2022 (UTC)