# Waleed (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/waleed/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Arabic |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,910 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,910 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 653, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Arabic وَلِيد (walīd).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 41 | 2,901 |
| 2012 | 46 | 2,676 |
| 2013 | 49 | 2,523 |
| 2014 | 51 | 2,490 |
| 2015 | 38 | 3,082 |
| 2016 | 40 | 2,988 |
| 2017 | 46 | 2,712 |
| 2018 | 37 | 3,166 |
| 2019 | 36 | 3,254 |
| 2020 | 40 | 2,975 |
| 2021 | 31 | 3,649 |
| 2022 | 36 | 3,333 |
| 2023 | 35 | 3,410 |
| 2024 | 35 | 3,390 |
| 2025 | 39 | 3,122 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 35 | 845 |
| 2012 | 23 | 1,152 |
| 2013 | 23 | 1,116 |
| 2014 | 20 | 1,281 |
| 2015 | 16 | 1,511 |
| 2016 | 31 | 946 |
| 2017 | 26 | 1,097 |
| 2018 | 25 | 1,097 |
| 2019 | 19 | 1,316 |
| 2020 | 22 | 1,192 |
| 2021 | 20 | 1,290 |
| 2022 | 17 | 1,469 |
| 2023 | 17 | 1,461 |
| 2024 | 16 | 1,595 |
| 2025 | 25 | 1,153 |

## People named Waleed

- Waleed al-Shehri, 9/11 hijacker (1978–2001)
- Waleed Abdullah, football player
- Waleed Al Hayam, Bahraini footballer
- Waleed Bakshween, footballer
- Waleed Zuaiter, American actor and producer
- Waleed Salem Al Jaberi, football player
- Al-Walid II, 11th Umayyad caliph
- Walide Khyar, French judoka
- Walid Abbas, Emirati football player
- Walid Badir, Arab-Israeli former association footballer
- Walid ibn al-Mughira, Chief of the Quraysh in Mecca (570–622)
- Walid ibn Walid, companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.