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Walid

#5,380 in 2025Boys' name

Newborn child, baby, through وَلِيد

Walid has been given to 1,000 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #5,380 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Walid, 2025

1 in 184,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Walid: meaning, origin, and history

Newborn child, baby, through وَلِيد

Arabic

What Walid means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Walid is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Walid comes through Arabic وَلِيد.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include وَلِيد.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,000 boys were recorded with the name Walid between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 38 in 2017; its best national rank was #2,705 in 1998.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,958 in 2020 to #5,380 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,769 in 2015 to #5,380 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 Walid?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 94,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,380
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Walid 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 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Walid. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Walids were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Walid was born before 2004 — so the typical Walid is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
26.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,000
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Choose a decade

2010s — 26.6% of all recorded uses (266).

Is Walid 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
−508
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+578
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,611
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.62×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
47.4%
Peak was 2017 (38)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,705
1998

Spellings of Walid

Walid is not the most common spelling — David is, with 95.6% against Walid's 0.03%.

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 Walid is used

Across 1910–2025, Walid was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 436,575 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Virginia1 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. Walid has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Walid around the world

Where Walid 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
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2023–2023
    #770
    in 2023
  • France
    1967–2025
    #507
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2017
    #492
    in 2017
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,817
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1977–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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

Walid by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,380
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 578
Best rank ever
#2,705
1998
Peak year
2017
38 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,000
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Walid

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

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Sibling names for Walid

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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