Valid

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Walid in FR France, US United States, SY Syria and 17 more, Waleed in EG Egypt, SA Saudi Arabia, TR Türkiye and 5 more, Валид in RU Russia and Валід in UA Ukraine.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Valid is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name209 records spelled Valid2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Russia

  Also written Valīd

• Croatian given name44 records spelled Valid7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Russia, Bulgaria, United States

  Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

  Also written Валид

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Valid is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, Well grounded or justifiable, pertinent.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In pwn, thick (forest), dense, closely planted

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• In Azerbaijani, father

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Romanian, VALÍD, -Ă, valizi, -de, adj. 1. (Despre oameni) Apt pentru muncă (sau pentru o anumită activitate); p. gener. sănătos. 2. (Despre o acțiune, un act, un contract) Care îndeplinește condițiile cerute de lege; valabil.

  as a word·DEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name●

• Al-Walid Ib. 668SAnot in their usual nameUmayyad caliph
• Al-Walid IIb. 706SYnot in their usual name11th Umayyad caliph
• Walid Khalidib. 1925LBnot in their usual namePalestinian historian (1925–2026)
• Walid Muallemb. 1941SYnot in their usual nameSyrian politician, foreign minister (1941-2020)
• Waleed Zuaiterb. 1971USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and producer
• Waleed al-Shehrib. 1978SAnot in their usual name9/11 hijacker (1978–2001)
• Waleed Abulkhairb. 1979SAnot in their usual nameSaudi Arabian lawyer and human rights activist
• Waleed Al-Husseinib. 1989PSnot in their usual namePalestinian essayist and writer
• Walide Khyarb. 1995FRnot in their usual nameFrench judoka
• Walid Cheddirab. 1998MAnot in their usual nameMoroccan footballer

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 70 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Valid?

We estimate roughly 22 thousand people bear Valid (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Valid have the most bearers?

Valid is most frequently recorded in Egypt, where it is most often spelled waleed.

How common is Valid compared with other names?

In Egypt, Valid is the 80th most common given name of 72,792 given names recorded there.

Is Valid a male or female name?

Valid is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.