Meaning not yet researched.
Waleed: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 39 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,700 in 1975.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,700 in 1975; #3,122 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Waleed in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,122 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1975, at #1,700.
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Waleed: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 39 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,700 in 1975 · most boys in one year: 57 (2000).
In 2025, 39 US boys were named Waleed, making it the 3,122nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 268 places from #3,390 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 35 boys named Waleed in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,700, reached in 1975. The most boys given the name in a single year was 57, in 2000. For comparison, it was #3,082 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Waleed in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1964 with 5 babies. In all, 1,910 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 471 babies named Waleed.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 375 US boys were named Waleed; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 46. In 2025 that was about 1 in 43,797 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Walid and Waled are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Walid (1,000), Waled (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Waleed in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 39 | #3,122 |
| 2024 | — | — | 35 | #3,390 |
| 2023 | — | — | 35 | #3,410 |
| 2022 | — | — | 36 | #3,333 |
| 2021 | — | — | 31 | #3,649 |
| 2020 | — | — | 40 | #2,975 |
| 2019 | — | — | 36 | #3,254 |
| 2018 | — | — | 37 | #3,166 |
| 2017 | — | — | 46 | #2,712 |
| 2016 | — | — | 40 | #2,988 |
| 2015 | — | — | 38 | #3,082 |
| 2014 | — | — | 51 | #2,490 |
| 2013 | — | — | 49 | #2,523 |
| 2012 | — | — | 46 | #2,676 |
| 2011 | — | — | 41 | #2,901 |
| 2010 | — | — | 39 | #3,012 |
| 2009 | — | — | 36 | #3,220 |
| 2008 | — | — | 45 | #2,752 |
| 2007 | — | — | 38 | #3,085 |
| 2006 | — | — | 43 | #2,739 |
| 2005 | — | — | 47 | #2,465 |
| 2004 | — | — | 56 | #2,129 |
| 2003 | — | — | 51 | #2,178 |
| 2002 | — | — | 46 | #2,291 |
| 2001 | — | — | 52 | #2,047 |
| 2000 | — | — | 57 | #1,873 |
| 1999 | — | — | 45 | #2,138 |
| 1998 | — | — | 51 | #1,930 |
| 1997 | — | — | 52 | #1,835 |
| 1996 | — | — | 48 | #1,904 |
| 1995 | — | — | 49 | #1,799 |
| 1994 | — | — | 41 | #2,040 |
| 1993 | — | — | 33 | #2,344 |
| 1992 | — | — | 29 | #2,528 |
| 1991 | — | — | 38 | #2,016 |
| 1990 | — | — | 32 | #2,254 |
| 1989 | — | — | 29 | #2,354 |
| 1988 | — | — | 14 | #3,699 |
| 1987 | — | — | 22 | #2,556 |
| 1986 | — | — | 20 | #2,681 |
| 1985 | — | — | 23 | #2,353 |
| 1984 | — | — | 18 | #2,702 |
| 1983 | — | — | 21 | #2,406 |
| 1982 | — | — | 24 | #2,205 |
| 1981 | — | — | 16 | #2,890 |
| 1980 | — | — | 17 | #2,825 |
| 1979 | — | — | 18 | #2,666 |
| 1978 | — | — | 15 | #2,923 |
| 1977 | — | — | 16 | #2,785 |
| 1976 | — | — | 28 | #1,825 |
| 1975 | — | — | 30 | #1,700 |
| 1974 | — | — | 13 | #2,940 |
| 1973 | — | — | 16 | #2,510 |
| 1972 | — | — | 12 | #2,984 |
| 1971 | — | — | 15 | #2,553 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,731 |
| 1967 | — | — | 5 | #4,533 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,573 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).