Waleed

#3,089 for boys in 2025, 39 births

Peak · boys
1975 · 30 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,910
since 1964

Waleed over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Waleed has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201973peak #1,658, 1975boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#3,08939
2024#3,33535
2023#3,34735
2022#3,27836
2021#3,58231
2020#2,92540
2019#3,20136
2018#3,10637
2017#2,67246
2016#2,93540
2015#3,02238
2014#2,46151
2013#2,49249
2012#2,63246
2011#2,85241
2010#2,95839
2009#3,16236
2008#2,71745
2007#3,02538
2006#2,69843
2005#2,43347
2004#2,10256
2003#2,15351
2002#2,24946
2001#2,02752
2000#1,84857
1999#2,09845
1998#1,89951
1997#1,81452
1996#1,87248
1995#1,78249
1994#2,01241
1993#2,29533
1992#2,46729
1991#1,98338
1990#2,21432
1989#2,29229
1988#3,52314
1987#2,46822
1986#2,60120
1985#2,29323
1984#2,61318
1983#2,34121
1982#2,16624
1981#2,77916
1980#2,72917
1979#2,56818
1978#2,79915
1977#2,66516
1976#1,78128
1975#1,65830
1974#2,79913
1973#2,40516
1972#2,81912
1971#2,46415
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1967#3,9665
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First appearance
1964

The first year at least five boys were named Waleed! It came in at #4,039, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1964–1970, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Waleed is popular in 1973

No state had 5 or more boys named Waleed in 1973, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Waleed
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 246 spots since 2024 (#3,335 → #3,089)
  • 164 spots since 2020 (#2,925 → #3,089)
  • 67 spots since 2015 (#3,022 → #3,089)
Rise & fade · boys
11 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1964
  • Peaked 1975 at #1,658 (30 births)
  • Births halved by 1978, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 34,456
  • Highest: 1 in 34,456 boys born in 2000 were named Waleed (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 43,797 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,658 in 1975, was only 1 in 52,045 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 24.7% of all boys named Waleed (471) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s15#3,966 (1967)#4,047
1970s163#1,658 (1975)#2,440
1980s204#2,166 (1982)#2,581
1990s418#1,782 (1995)#2,044
2000s471#1,848 (2000)#2,441
2010s423#2,461 (2014)#2,833
2020s216#2,925 (2020)#3,259

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Waleed in 1973

boys
#2,405
16 births · 1 in 97,411 boys

Top boys' names in 1973

  1. #1Michael67,797
  2. #2Christopher48,313
  3. #3Jason46,683
  4. #4James42,836
  5. #5David41,082
  6. #6John39,165
  7. #7Robert38,698
  8. #8Brian35,686
  9. #9William28,018
  10. #10Matthew24,531
  11. #2,405Waleed16
More about 1973

boys

1,558,576 boys got a published name in 1973; 1 in 97,411 of them was named Waleed, which outranked 59.1% of the 5,877 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Waleed
  1. #2,311Wellington17
  2. #2,311Winford17
  3. #2,311Yisroel17
  4. #2,405Waleed16
  5. #2,405Aidan16
  6. #2,405Alvie16
  7. #2,405Apolonio16
  8. #2,513Amando15
  9. #2,513Amon15
  10. #2,513Antion15

Tied with 107 names at #2,405; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1972
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,348Vashon#3,152 → #804
  2. ↑ 1,405Jory#2,158 → #753
  3. ↑ 348Pernell#1,262 → #914
  4. ↑ 345Enoch#1,307 → #962
  5. ↑ 273Tarik#1,177 → #904
Fallers
  1. ↓ 669Jabbar#917 → #1,586
  2. ↓ 361Wes#993 → #1,354
  3. ↓ 326Paris#797 → #1,123
  4. ↓ 284Christophe#984 → #1,268
  5. ↓ 272Bennett#851 → #1,123

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1973 →