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Waleed

#3,121 in 2025Boys' name

Newborn child, baby, through وَلِيد

Waleed has been given to 1,910 babies in the U.S. since 1964. In 2025 it ranked #3,121 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 57 recorded.

Babies named Waleed, 2025

1 in 85,000

Waleed over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Waleed: meaning, origin, and history

Newborn child, baby, through وَلِيد

Arabic

What Waleed means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Waleed is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Waleed comes through Arabic وَلِيد.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Walid and وَلِيد.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,910 boys were recorded with the name Waleed between 1964 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 57 in 2000; its best national rank was #1,699 in 1975.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,974 in 2020 to #3,121 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,081 in 2015 to #3,121 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Waleed?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 85,000
39 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 43,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,121
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
58,922 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Waleed 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 58,922 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Waleed. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Waleeds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Waleed was born before 2002 — so the typical Waleed is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
24.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
55.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,910
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 24.7% of all recorded uses (471).

Is Waleed 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
+267
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−147
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−40
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.03×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
68.4%
Peak was 2000 (57)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,699
1975

Spellings of Waleed

Waleed is not the most common spelling — Walter is, with 90.5% against Waleed's 0.27%.

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 Waleed is used

Across 1910–2025, Waleed was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 121,338 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6New Jersey1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 in —
  8. 8Virginia1 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. Waleed has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Waleed around the world

Where Waleed 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
    1996–2025
    #1,153
    in 2025
  • France
    1996–2025
    #4,872
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,390
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1966–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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.

Waleed by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,121
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 147
Best rank ever
#1,699
1975
Peak year
2000
57 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,910
Count in 2025
39

Names similar to Waleed

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

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Sibling names for Waleed

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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