# Walid (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/walid/  
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 | Waleed, Waled |
| US babies named this | 1,000 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,000 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 385, 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 | 19 | 4,971 |
| 2012 | 30 | 3,618 |
| 2013 | 20 | 4,792 |
| 2014 | 31 | 3,528 |
| 2015 | 29 | 3,770 |
| 2016 | 27 | 3,981 |
| 2017 | 38 | 3,118 |
| 2018 | 22 | 4,599 |
| 2019 | 24 | 4,324 |
| 2020 | 15 | 5,962 |
| 2021 | 17 | 5,546 |
| 2022 | 20 | 5,005 |
| 2023 | 18 | 5,452 |
| 2024 | 21 | 4,876 |
| 2025 | 18 | 5,382 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 18 | 1,342 |
| 2012 | 17 | 1,430 |
| 2013 | 10 | 2,055 |
| 2014 | 9 | 2,248 |
| 2015 | 12 | 1,902 |
| 2016 | 6 | 3,079 |
| 2017 | 12 | 1,923 |
| 2018 | 5 | 3,412 |
| 2019 | 16 | 1,506 |
| 2020 | 8 | 2,404 |
| 2021 | 4 | 3,990 |
| 2022 | 8 | 2,529 |
| 2023 | 15 | 1,610 |
| 2024 | 10 | 2,263 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4,275 |

## In other languages

- French: Oualid

## People named Walid

- Walid Regragui, French-Moroccan football manager (born 1975)
- Walid Mesloub, footballer
- Hassan Walid, Egyptian handball player

## 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.