Walid
Walid was given to 18 boys in 2025, #5,380 among boys’ names; 1,000 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Walid by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Walid mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Walid is “a male given name from Arabic.”
From Arabic وَلِيد (walīd).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Walid?
#5,380 among boys’ names, 2025
Walid fell from #3,769 in 2015 to #5,380 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 15.1 to 10.5 per million.
38 babies in 2017, the peak
Walid peaked in 2017, when 38 boys were given it, #3,117 among boys’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 47% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #5,380 | 10.5 |
| 2024 | 21 | #4,872 | 12.2 |
| 2023 | 18 | #5,447 | 10.5 |
| 2022 | 20 | #5,001 | 11.5 |
| 2021 | 17 | #5,541 | 9.7 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,958 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 24 | #4,320 | 13.4 |
| 2018 | 22 | #4,595 | 12.1 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,117 | 20.5 |
| 2016 | 27 | #3,980 | 14.2 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #3,769 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 31 | #3,526 | 16.1 |
| 2013 | 20 | #4,789 | 10.6 |
| 2012 | 30 | #3,615 | 15.8 |
| 2011 | 19 | #4,969 | 10.0 |
| 2010 | 26 | #3,987 | 13.6 |
| 2009 | 17 | #5,539 | 8.6 |
| 2008 | 31 | #3,555 | 15.2 |
| 2007 | 20 | #4,798 | 9.6 |
| 2006 | 23 | #4,210 | 11.2 |
| 2005 | 19 | #4,620 | 9.5 |
| 2004 | 28 | #3,445 | 14.1 |
| 2003 | 24 | #3,722 | 12.1 |
| 2002 | 28 | #3,253 | 14.4 |
| 2001 | 31 | #2,979 | 16.0 |
| 2000 | 29 | #3,064 | 14.8 |
| 1999 | 21 | #3,694 | 10.9 |
| 1998 | 31 | #2,705 | 16.2 |
| 1997 | 27 | #2,898 | 14.3 |
| 1996 | 18 | #3,817 | 9.5 |
| 1995 | 22 | #3,182 | 11.6 |
| 1994 | 18 | #3,739 | 9.3 |
| 1993 | 22 | #3,132 | 11.2 |
| 1992 | 25 | #2,825 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,618 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,976 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 17 | #3,434 | 8.5 |
| 1988 | 12 | #4,146 | 6.3 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,943 | 6.4 |
| 1986 | 15 | #3,259 | 8.1 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,389 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,450 | 7.2 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,459 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,983 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 10 | #4,138 | 5.6 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,479 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,337 | 4.1 |
| 1978 | 12 | #3,392 | 7.3 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,565 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 6 | #5,207 | 3.8 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,631 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,415 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 5 | #5,015 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Walid a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Walid has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Walid: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Walid, and how old are they?
An estimated 974 Americans named Walid and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 11 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 3,089 people named Walid (8 women and girls, 3,081 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 877 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.5 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,915 babies since 1880, Walid is the second most given (34% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 57 babies (32%), again the second 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 Walid
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 Walid and names like it
- Compare Walid and WaleedBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sWalid peaked in 2017.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Walid since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Walid: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Walid.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Walid alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with WMost given first.