Wahid
Wahid or Waheed is an Arabic masculine given name, meaning "One", "Absolute One". Its feminine form is Wahida. Al-Wahid is one of the 99 names of Allah.
- Arabic
- Urdu
- Bengali
- Indonesian
Meaning & Origin of Wahid
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Wahid or Waheed is an Arabic masculine given name, meaning "One", "Absolute One". Its feminine form is Wahida. Al-Wahid is one of the 99 names of Allah.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Arabic
- Urdu
- Bengali
- Indonesian
The Story of Wahid
American parents first put Wahid on the record books as a baby boy name in 1982, with 6 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 1999, when 11 Wahids were born — ranking #5,656 that year. About 33% of every Wahid on record arrived during the 1990s, its defining decade. Wahid last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 119 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Wahid
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About the name Wahid
Wahid is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1982 and has accumulated 119 births in the dataset. Wahid's peak popularity came in 1999 when it ranked #5,656. Use the chart and map above to compare Wahid's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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