Walid
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Newborn baby’. Al-Walid ibn- ‘Abd-al-Malik (d (A concise dictionary of first names)
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 41 countries · latest register: INS Tunisia, 1990
Walid is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country, where it is the 6th most common given name. Walid is also written Валид in Cyrillic and วาลิด in Thai.
- TNTunisia≈1 in 230(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 270
- MAMorocco≈1 in 600
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 Walid 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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 313 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 229 (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Tunisia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Walid in other scripts: Cyrillic and Thai
(measured from records)Locally spelled Waleed in EG Egypt, SA Saudi Arabia, PK Pakistan and 2 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)‘Newborn baby’. Al-Walid ibn- ‘Abd-al-Malik (d. 715) was the Umayyad caliph (705-15) whose armies conquered Spain and attempted to capture Constantinople.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Walid 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | #6 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 273 | — | Walid | 85 |
| PK Pakistan | #420 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | listed | Waleed | 108 |
| EG Egypt | #71 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | listed | Waleed | 156 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #40 | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 479 | — | Waleed | 183 |
| MA Morocco | #69 | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 596 | — | Walid | 116 |
| TN Tunisia | #6 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 229 | 1.4K | Walid | 102 |
| KW Kuwait | #64 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 682 | — | Waleed | 111 |
| ES Spain | — | 4,093 | 1 in 12K | 4.1K | Waleed | 74 |
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: INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)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 nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Arabic, newborn, newborn child, nascent, new,
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, newborn child; boy; son
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, newborn; productive, prolific
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In German, männl. Vom. arabischen Ursprungs (arab. walid »neugeborenes Kind« zu arab. walada »gebären«).
as a nameDUDEN 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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Al-Walid Ib. 668SAUmayyad caliph
- Al-Walid IIb. 706SY11th Umayyad caliph
- Waleed Al-Husseinib. 1989PSnot in their usual namePalestinian essayist and writer
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)73 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 41 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Walid mean?
- Recorded meaning: ‘Newborn baby’. Al-Walid ibn- ‘Abd-al-Malik (d.
- Where does the name Walid come from?
- ‘Newborn baby’. Al-Walid ibn- ‘Abd-al-Malik (d. 715) was the Umayyad caliph (705-15) whose armies conquered Spain and attempted to capture Constantinople. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Walid a male or female name?
- Walid is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: France (INSEE, 2024), Spain (INE), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Tunisia (INS Tunisia, 1990), among others.
- Which countries have the most people named Walid?
- Mondonomo estimates about 171 thousand people named Walid in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled walid. After it come Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Morocco; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Walid?
- In Spain, the national register counted 4,093 people named Walid, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Walid compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Walid is the 6th most common given name of 27,215 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/walidThe 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, “Walid” — the 6th most common given name in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.