Velid
given name · Turkish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Velid is a given name, most frequently recorded in Syria. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Arabic, written in the Latin script.
- SYSyria1 in 1.2K◐
- TRTürkiye1 in 47K
- BABosnia & Herzegovina1 in 6.6K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈142 ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 39 ●
- 1 in 28K ◐
across 7 countries
recorded for this name
41K records
Official registry-verified
Slovenia
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Велид in RU Russia, MK North Macedonia and Велід 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.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY Syria | #111 | 28,371 | 29K rec. | — | — | Velid | 7 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 11,455 | 12K rec. | — | — | Velid | 19 |
| IQ Iraq | — | 502 | 547 rec. | — | — | Velid | 3 |
| RU Russia | — | 291 | 166 rec. | — | — | Велид | 39 |
| US United States | — | 98 | 102 rec. | — | — | Velid | 14 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 76△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 28K | 76 | — | 1 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #801 | 67 | 10 rec. | — | — | Velid | 8 |
| FR France | — | 47 | 38 rec. | — | — | Velid | 19 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 36 | 33 rec. | — | — | Velid | 5 |
| LB Lebanon | — | 29 | 29 rec. | — | — | Velid | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | 25△ | 9 rec. | 1 in 408K | 25 | Velid | 3 |
| UA Ukraine | — | 21 | 22 rec. | — | — | Велід | 5 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Turkish27K63%
- Arabic9.7K23%
- Russian7922%
- English7362%
- Persian4301%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Turkish | 26,918 | 63% |
| Arabic | 9,663 | 23% |
| Russian | 792 | 2% |
| English | 736 | 2% |
| Persian | 430 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Velid is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In vo, seventh
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 11 |
| 2000 | 11 |
| 2001 | 12 |
| 2002 | 12 |
| 2003 | 12 |
| 2004 | 12 |
| 2005 | 13 |
| 2006 | 15 |
| 2007 | 15 |
| 2008 | 15 |
| 2009 | 16 |
| 2010 | 16 |
| 2011 | 16 |
| 2012 | 16 |
| 2013 | 16 |
| 2014 | 18 |
| 2015 | 20 |
| 2016 | 20 |
| 2017 | 21 |
| 2018 | 21 |
| 2019 | 22 |
| 2020 | 22 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Velid Đekićb. 1960literary critic (born 1960)
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●
Attested in 13 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 76 | #883 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 75 | #1,746 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 72 | #899 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2022 | 69 | #868 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2023 | 68 | #900 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2021 | 64 | #894 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2020 | 58 | #919 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2019 | 56 | #903 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2018 | 45 | #987 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2017 | 45 | #976 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2010 | 45 | #914 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2015 | 44 | #966 |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 54 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Velid?
- We estimate roughly 142 people bear Velid (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Velid have the most bearers?
- Velid is most frequently recorded in Syria, where it is most often spelled velid.
- How common is Velid compared with other names?
- In Syria, Velid is the 111th most common given name of 109,868 given names recorded there.
- Is Velid a male or female name?
- Velid 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.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/velidThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Velid” — the 111th most common given name in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.