From Hebrew

David comes from the Hebrew dawid meaning beloved. King David of Israel is one of the towering figures of religious history — poet, warrior, musician, and the ancestor of the Messiah in Jewish and Christian tradition. He wrote the Psalms, defeated Goliath, and united the twelve tribes. David Bowie, David Beckham, David Bowie, Leonardo da Vinci patron Michelangelo sculpted him as the ideal of human perfection. The name has been in the US top 10 for all but a handful of years since 1936 — perhaps the single most consistent male name in American history.