Waled

Boys' name

Newborn child, baby, through وَلِيد

Waled has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2008. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2008, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Waled, 2008

1 in 786,000

Waled over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Waled: meaning, origin, and history

Newborn child, baby, through وَلِيد

Arabic

What Waled means

Waled belongs to the name family reached through Waled → وَلِيد. Its meaning is “newborn child, baby”.

Origin, language, and formation

Waled is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Waled comes through Arabic وَلِيد.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Walid and وَلِيد.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Waled between 2008 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2008; its best national rank was #14,501 in 2008.

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.

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How common is Waled?

Waled had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008: 1 in 786,000; 5 of 3,930,727 births
Among boys only: 1 in 408,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2008: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 544,916 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Waled 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 2008 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 544,916 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Waled. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Waleds were born

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

Median birth year: 2008; About 17 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Waled 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2008 (5)
Years since peak: 17; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #14,501; 2008

Spellings of Waled

Waled is not the most common spelling — Walter is, with 28.9% against Waled's <0.01%.

Walter28.9%631,172
Caleb14.9%324,350
Alex13.1%286,169
Dale12.7%278,156
Jared9.5%206,351
Kaleb4.0%86,649
Wade3.5%76,498
Alec2.5%55,152

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.

Waled around the world

Where Waled 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
2008–2008
#4,432
in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Waled by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #14,501; 2008
Peak year: 2008; 5 that year
First recorded: 2008
Last recorded: 2008
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Waled

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

Walee Walik Waldir Walfre Walten Walmer Walsh Waldy Walfrid Walters Walace Walford Wales Waldean Caled Walbert Wallen Walley Walther Wale Walid Kaled Wallice Guled

Sibling names for Waled

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

For a sister

Jaylen Yamilet Dalilah Desire Jaidyn Kalia Abagail Rihanna

For a brother

Kaeden Gavyn Tyshawn Marley Aditya Aydan Aydin Javion

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