Waleed

Where Waleed comes from

From Arabic وَلِيد (walīd).
— Wiktionary's entry for Waleed
  • Arabic
Along the way
  1. 1964
    First appearance
    #4,039 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1975
    Peak, #1,658
    30 babies named Waleed — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1978
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,799.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic, variant of Walid.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.