David Chokachi was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, the USA on January 16, 1968.

David was born in the Massachusetts town of Plymouth.

Modhaffer Khalaf Al-Chokhachy, his father, was born in Kadhimain, Iraq.

His mother, Carolyn (Coombs), comes from a Massachusetts family of English (from her father) and Finnish (from her mother) background.

His father is Turkish-Iraqi, and his mother is Finnish from Vaasa, Finland. 

He went to Tabor Academy in Marion, Massachusetts, an elite boarding prep school where he played lacrosse and football.