Waleed — Name Meaning in Islam

Root: و-ل-د (w-l-d), "to give birth, to beget". Walīd is the faʿīl pattern used passively: the newborn, the one just brought into the world. Classical usage extends it a little further, to a boy still in childhood and to a young household servant, but the core sense is the infant. English readers will know the name best from the patronymic of Khalid ibn al-Walid.

From the same root: walad (a child), awlād (children), wālid and wālida (father and mother — literally the one who begot and the one who bore), wālidayn (the two parents, the word the Qur'an uses when it commands kindness to them), mawlid (a birth, and a birthplace), mīlād (birth, and the word for a birthday), wilāda (childbirth), tawallada (to be generated from). Al-Ikhlas 112:3 denies the whole root of God at once: He did not beget and was not begotten. In ash-Shu'ara 26:18 Pharaoh reminds Musa that he was raised among them as a walīd, a child.

Spellings: Waleed, Walid, Velid (Turkish), Walid (Indonesian), Waleed (Urdu), Walid (French and Maghrebi), وليد.

Pronunciation: wa-LĪD, stress on the second syllable, which holds a long ī. The w is a full consonant as in English "west".

Feminine counterpart: Walīda, rare.