Walid

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled 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●

Attested in 1 language 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◐

Walid is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name22K records spelled Walid55 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, Brazil, United States, Argentina

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Wàlid, Wâlïd, Wàlïd, Wàlîd, Walīd

• a separate given name2.3K records spelled Walid4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, Morocco, Tunisia

  Also written Walīd, Walîd, Wālid

• Bangla given name971 records spelled Walid10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Bangladesh, India, United States, Türkiye

  Languages: Bangla, Odia

  Also written Wälîd, Wãlîd, Walīd, Wãlïd, Wälíd

• Italian given name427 records spelled Walid3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, United States, Syria, United Kingdom

  Also written Wàlïd, Wàlid

• Bulgarian given name324 records spelled Walid16 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Bulgaria, Croatia, United States, Syria

  Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian

  Also written Уалид, Ualid, Wàlid, Wālid, Wälïd

• Czech given name294 records spelled Walid18 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, United States, Syria

  Languages: Czech, Slovak

  Also written Ŵầľid, Wãlîd, Wãĺïď, Wâlîď, Wãlĩd

• Japanese given name251 records spelled Walid2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Japan, United States, Morocco, Romania

  Also written Wàlîd

43 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●

Walid is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Swedish, Walid (Waleed) är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’nyfödd’.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In Arabic, newborn, newborn child, nascent, new,

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• In Arabic, newborn child; boy; son

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• In Arabic, newborn; productive, prolific

  as a name·African Muslim Names

• In German, männl. Vom. arabischen Ursprungs (arab. walid »neugeborenes Kind« zu arab. walada »gebären«).

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 53 years between 1969–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Al-Walid Ib. 668SAUmayyad caliph
• Al-Walid IIb. 706SY11th Umayyad caliph
• Walid Muallemb. 1941SYSyrian politician, foreign minister (1941-2020)
• Walid Jumblattb. 1949LBLebanese politician (born 1949)
• Waleed Zuaiterb. 1971USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and producer
• Walid Regraguib. 1975FRMoroccan association football manager and former player (born 1975)
• Waleed al-Shehrib. 1978SAnot in their usual name9/11 hijacker (1978–2001)
• Waleed Al-Husseinib. 1989PSnot in their usual namePalestinian essayist and writer
• Walide Khyarb. 1995FRnot in their usual nameFrench judoka
• Walid Cheddirab. 1998MAMoroccan 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 · 464 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Walid?

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

In which country does Walid have the most bearers?

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

How common is Walid compared with other names?

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

Is Walid a male or female name?

Walid 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.

What does the name Walid mean?

Recorded meaning: ‘Newborn baby’. Al-Walid ibn- ‘Abd-al-Malik (d.