Waleed
An Arabic name meaning "newborn child". In Poland it barely registers: just 54 men carry it, and no boy has been given it in recent years.
Waleed Pronunciation
What Waleed means
Where Waleed comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Waleed comes from Arabic, from the three-letter root w-l-d that also gives the word walad, a son or child. The short meaning stays close to that root: newborn child. It names the very first hours of a life, the moment someone arrives.
The name has real history behind it. Al-Walid I, an Umayyad caliph, ruled from 705 to 715, and under him the Great Mosque of Damascus was built, one of the oldest surviving mosques in the world. His name carried the same sense of a child newly come. Later bearers spread the form across the Arabic-speaking world, and today Waleed is common from Cairo to the Gulf.
In Poland the name arrives with families of Arabic background, and a teacher reading it from a class register may pause on the spelling before saying it. There is no Polish name-day for Waleed, and no diminutive fixed by custom. The origin is filed under other, outside the usual Slavic and Latin lines. What holds steady is the meaning underneath the letters: a newborn child.
How many people are named Waleed
1 in 395300 men in Poland is named Waleed. 54 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5114 among male names.
Waleed as a middle name
Waleed is a first name for 54 men in Poland and a middle name for another 22, a 71/29 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1897th, between Wahyu (22) and Wallace (22).
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#1895 Trojan22
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#1896 Wahyu22
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#1897 Waleed22
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#1898 Wallace22
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#1899 Yasi̇n22