Walid
An Arabic name meaning "newborn", the plain fact of a child just arrived and still counted in days. In Poland it stays rare: about 173 men carry it, and most Poles have never met one.
Walid Pronunciation
Walid is pronounced VAH-leet (/ˈvalit/).
What Walid means
Where Walid comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Walid comes from Arabic وليد, and it means "newborn". The Polish sense is "narodzony, zrodzony". This is a name given at the very start of a life, when the child is still counted in days rather than years.
The most documented bearer is al-Walid I, the Umayyad caliph who ruled from Damascus in the early eighth century and ordered the building of the Great Mosque there. His name sat over a stretch of wide expansion, while the word itself stayed small and literal. A newborn is a newborn.
On a Polish class register, "Walid" marks a family with Arabic roots. The related forms column stays empty. It travels without a diminutive.
The meaning reaches for nothing abstract. Walid names the plain fact of a child newly born.
How many people are named Walid
1 in 123388 men in Poland is named Walid. 173 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2432 among male names.
Walid as a middle name
Walid is a first name for 173 men in Poland and a middle name for another 35, an 83/17 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1397th, between Waclaw (35) and Yakov (35).
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#1395 Vinod35
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#1396 Waclaw35
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#1397 Walid35
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#1398 Yakov35
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#1399 Albrecht34