Waleed
Waleed was given to 39 boys in 2025, #3,121 among boys’ names; 1,910 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,850 Americans named Waleed and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 13 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Waleed by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Waleed mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Waleed is “a male given name from Arabic, variant of Walid.”
From Arabic وَلِيد (walīd).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Waleed?
#3,121 among boys’ names, 2025
Waleed fell from #3,081 in 2015 to #3,121 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 19.8 to 22.8 per million.
57 babies in 2000, the peak
Waleed peaked in 2000, when 57 boys were given it, #1,869 among boys’ names. The 39 births of 2025 are 68% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39 | #3,121 | 22.8 |
| 2024 | 35 | #3,388 | 20.3 |
| 2023 | 35 | #3,408 | 20.5 |
| 2022 | 36 | #3,331 | 20.6 |
| 2021 | 31 | #3,645 | 17.7 |
| 2020 | 40 | #2,974 | 23.2 |
| 2019 | 36 | #3,251 | 20.1 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,163 | 20.4 |
| 2017 | 46 | #2,711 | 24.9 |
| 2016 | 40 | #2,987 | 21.1 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,081 | 19.8 |
| 2014 | 51 | #2,488 | 26.6 |
| 2013 | 49 | #2,521 | 25.9 |
| 2012 | 46 | #2,675 | 24.2 |
| 2011 | 41 | #2,900 | 21.6 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,011 | 20.3 |
| 2009 | 36 | #3,219 | 18.1 |
| 2008 | 45 | #2,751 | 22.1 |
| 2007 | 38 | #3,083 | 18.3 |
| 2006 | 43 | #2,738 | 20.9 |
| 2005 | 47 | #2,461 | 23.5 |
| 2004 | 56 | #2,125 | 28.2 |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,174 | 25.8 |
| 2002 | 46 | #2,287 | 23.7 |
| 2001 | 52 | #2,043 | 26.8 |
| 2000 | 57 | #1,869 | 29.0 |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,135 | 23.4 |
| 1998 | 51 | #1,927 | 26.7 |
| 1997 | 52 | #1,832 | 27.6 |
| 1996 | 48 | #1,900 | 25.3 |
| 1995 | 49 | #1,794 | 25.7 |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,035 | 21.2 |
| 1993 | 33 | #2,338 | 16.8 |
| 1992 | 29 | #2,523 | 14.5 |
| 1991 | 38 | #2,010 | 18.8 |
| 1990 | 32 | #2,249 | 15.6 |
| 1989 | 29 | #2,348 | 14.5 |
| 1988 | 14 | #3,694 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 22 | #2,552 | 11.8 |
| 1986 | 20 | #2,678 | 10.9 |
| 1985 | 23 | #2,352 | 12.4 |
| 1984 | 18 | #2,701 | 10.0 |
| 1983 | 21 | #2,405 | 11.7 |
| 1982 | 24 | #2,204 | 13.2 |
| 1981 | 16 | #2,888 | 8.9 |
| 1980 | 17 | #2,824 | 9.5 |
| 1979 | 18 | #2,665 | 10.5 |
| 1978 | 15 | #2,922 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 16 | #2,784 | 9.7 |
| 1976 | 28 | #1,824 | 17.8 |
| 1975 | 30 | #1,699 | 19.2 |
| 1974 | 13 | #2,938 | 8.3 |
| 1973 | 16 | #2,508 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,982 | 7.4 |
| 1971 | 15 | #2,552 | 8.5 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,729 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,531 | 2.9 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,572 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Waleed a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Waleed has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Waleed: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Waleed, and how old are they?
1,850 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,910 Americans ever recorded as Waleed. The median Waleed alive today is 23 years old; half are between 13 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 3,052 people named Waleed (6 women and girls, 3,046 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,664 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 171 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 436 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 732 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 509 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Waleed born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 5 | #2,025 | 1.9× |
Where Waleed is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Waleed is most over-represented in New York: since 1964 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Waleed with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,910 babies since 1880, Waleed is the most given (66% of them). In 2025 it was given to 39 of their 57 babies (68%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Waleed
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Waleed and names like it
- Compare Waleed and WalidBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sWaleed peaked in 2000.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Waleed since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Waleed.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Waleed alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with WMost given first.