Waleed
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Arabic/Muslim: 'newborn'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˌwɑˈɫid/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Waleed is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Algeria it is the 6th most common given name.
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 567(inferred from the name graph)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 820
- EGEgypt≈1 in 1.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Waleed itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 313 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 567 (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Saudi Arabia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Walid in MA Morocco, DZ Algeria, TN Tunisia and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Arabic/Muslim: 'newborn'
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Waleed counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #420 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | listed | Waleed | 108 |
| DZ Algeria | #6 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 407 | — | Walid | 85 |
| EG Egypt | #71 | ≈91,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | listed | Waleed | 156 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #40 | ≈60,000 est. | ≈1 in 567 | — | Waleed | 183 |
| MA Morocco | #69 | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 777 | — | Walid | 116 |
| TN Tunisia | #6 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 399 | 1.4K | Walid | 102 |
| KW Kuwait | #64 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 820 | — | Waleed | 111 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 39 | 1 in 443K | 741 | Walid | 50 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the wgnd-eg-names register; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Al-Walid Ib. 668SAUmayyad caliph
- Al-Walid IIb. 706SY11th Umayyad caliph
- Walid Khalidib. 1925LBPalestinian historian (1925–2026)
- Walid Muallemb. 1941SYSyrian politician, foreign minister (1941-2020)
- Waleed Zuaiterb. 1971USAmerican actor and producer
- Waleed al-Shehrib. 1978SA9/11 hijacker (1978–2001)
- Waleed Abulkhairb. 1979SASaudi Arabian lawyer and human rights activist
- Waleed Al-Husseinib. 1989PSPalestinian 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 50 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 39 | #7,804 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 23 | #18,129 |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
| EG Egypt | WGND 2.0 — Egypt given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Waleed mean, and where does it come from?
- Arabic/Muslim: 'newborn' Recorded by African Names.
- How do you pronounce Waleed?
- A machine transcription gives /ˌwɑˈɫid/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Waleed a male or female name?
- Waleed 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.
- In which country does Waleed have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 174 thousand people named Waleed in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled waleed.
- How common is the name Waleed?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 39 people named Waleed, about 1 in 443 thousand residents.
- How common is Waleed compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Waleed is the 420th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Waleed?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/waleedThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Waleed” — the 420th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.