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Christian names starting with D
Browse Christian and biblical names starting with D, with meanings, origins, and faith context.
The Hebrew daleth, the fourth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, anchors three of the catalog's most enduring entries. Daniel, the exiled prophet whose visions and lion's den story (Daniel 6) made the name a fixture in Christian and Jewish naming for two thousand years. David, the shepherd boy who became Israel's greatest king, the writer of the Psalms, and the figure whose royal line the New Testament traces to Jesus. Deborah, the judge of Israel who held court under the palm tree between Ramah and Bethel and led the army against the Canaanite general Sisera (Judges 4 to 5).
The D cluster spans three biblical eras: the era of the judges (Deborah, around 1100 BC), the united monarchy (David, around 1000 BC), and the late exilic period (Daniel, sixth century BC).
All three carry the meaning of their Hebrew root in their biblical story. Daniel: God is my judge. David: beloved. Deborah: bee, an image of communal industry.
D names in 2026
David is the D cluster's century-anchor. The name held a Top 30 position for 70 consecutive years from the late 1930s through 2010, among the longest sustained Top 30 runs for any boy's name in the SSA dataset's century-plus history. David currently sits at #35 in the 2025 SSA data, still strong but no longer ubiquitous.
Daniel mirrors David's durability with a different peak: Top 10 from 1985 through 2010, currently at #22 in 2025. Deborah is the cluster's outlier, having dropped from #2 in 1955 to outside the Top 800 today, the largest single-name collapse in the biblical-name catalog.