Walid is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Waleed, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Walid: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 18 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,708 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,708 in 1998; #5,382 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Walid in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,382 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #2,708.
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Walid: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 18 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,708 in 1998 · most boys in one year: 38 (2017).
In 2025, 18 US boys were named Walid, making it the 5,382nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 506 places from #4,876 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 21 boys named Walid in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,708, reached in 1998. The most boys given the name in a single year was 38, in 2017. For comparison, it was #3,770 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Walid in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 5 babies. In all, 1,000 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 266 babies named Walid.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 220 US boys were named Walid; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 38. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,893 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Waleed (1,910 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Walid 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 | — | — | 18 | #5,382 |
| 2024 | — | — | 21 | #4,876 |
| 2023 | — | — | 18 | #5,452 |
| 2022 | — | — | 20 | #5,005 |
| 2021 | — | — | 17 | #5,546 |
| 2020 | — | — | 15 | #5,962 |
| 2019 | — | — | 24 | #4,324 |
| 2018 | — | — | 22 | #4,599 |
| 2017 | — | — | 38 | #3,118 |
| 2016 | — | — | 27 | #3,981 |
| 2015 | — | — | 29 | #3,770 |
| 2014 | — | — | 31 | #3,528 |
| 2013 | — | — | 20 | #4,792 |
| 2012 | — | — | 30 | #3,618 |
| 2011 | — | — | 19 | #4,971 |
| 2010 | — | — | 26 | #3,988 |
| 2009 | — | — | 17 | #5,542 |
| 2008 | — | — | 31 | #3,558 |
| 2007 | — | — | 20 | #4,800 |
| 2006 | — | — | 23 | #4,214 |
| 2005 | — | — | 19 | #4,625 |
| 2004 | — | — | 28 | #3,449 |
| 2003 | — | — | 24 | #3,727 |
| 2002 | — | — | 28 | #3,257 |
| 2001 | — | — | 31 | #2,984 |
| 2000 | — | — | 29 | #3,070 |
| 1999 | — | — | 21 | #3,699 |
| 1998 | — | — | 31 | #2,708 |
| 1997 | — | — | 27 | #2,902 |
| 1996 | — | — | 18 | #3,823 |
| 1995 | — | — | 22 | #3,187 |
| 1994 | — | — | 18 | #3,745 |
| 1993 | — | — | 22 | #3,138 |
| 1992 | — | — | 25 | #2,831 |
| 1991 | — | — | 17 | #3,625 |
| 1990 | — | — | 11 | #4,983 |
| 1989 | — | — | 17 | #3,440 |
| 1988 | — | — | 12 | #4,151 |
| 1987 | — | — | 12 | #3,948 |
| 1986 | — | — | 15 | #3,262 |
| 1985 | — | — | 14 | #3,392 |
| 1984 | — | — | 13 | #3,452 |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #5,462 |
| 1982 | — | — | 8 | #4,985 |
| 1981 | — | — | 10 | #4,140 |
| 1980 | — | — | 9 | #4,481 |
| 1979 | — | — | 7 | #5,339 |
| 1978 | — | — | 12 | #3,393 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,567 |
| 1974 | — | — | 6 | #5,209 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #5,633 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #5,417 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #5,017 |
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).