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Wael

#6,775 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Wail

Wael has been given to 520 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #6,775 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Wael, 2025

1 in 255,000

Wael over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wael: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Wail

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Wael means

Wael is a alternate transcription of Wail.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Wail.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 520 boys were recorded with the name Wael between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2015; its best national rank was #3,605 in 1978.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,501 in 2020 to #6,775 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,393 in 2015 to #6,775 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Wael?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,775
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Wael sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wael. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Waels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Wael was born before 2008 — so the typical Wael is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
520
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 29.4% of all recorded uses (153).

Is Wael rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,722
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,726
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,382
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.57×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
56.5%
Peak was 2015 (23)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,605
1978

Spellings of Wael

Wael is not the most common spelling — Paul is, with 42.7% against Wael's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Wael is used

Across 1910–2025, Wael was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,382,433 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Michigan1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Wael has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Wael around the world

Where Wael ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2003–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    1976–2025
    #421
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #1,459
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1991–1997
    #543
    in 1997

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Wael by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,775
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,726
Best rank ever
#3,605
1978
Peak year
2015
23 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
520
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Wael

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

DaelRaelZaelSaelChaelLaelMaelAdaelNaelSamaelMykaelEzraelMizaelHazaelXaelJonaelMicaelJaelAsaelRefaelIzaelIzmaelCaelItzael

Sibling names for Wael

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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