Wael

Popularity, 1880–2025

boys named Wael

By the numbers

Total US births

520

Estimated living today

510

Median age today

17

Peak year

2015

Best rank

4,295th

Rank in 2025

6,446th

First recorded

1977

How old the living Waels are

born that year still alive today

Of the 520 babies given the name since 1977, about 510 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2008 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Waels

• Wael Ghonim (born 1980)Egyptian activist and engineer
• Wael Gomaa (born 1975)Egyptian association football player
• Wael Kfoury (born 1974)Lebanese actor and singer
• Wael Dahdouh (born 1970)Palestinian journalist
• Wael Hallaq (born 1955)Canadian scholar and writer on Islamic law and jurisprudence
• Wael Zwaiter (1934–1972)Palestinian Arab diplomat and writer

People named Wael with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Wael is most common

• NY12
• MI10
• CA5

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2015

The most popular boys’ names the year Wael peaked:

• Noah
• Liam
• Mason
• Jacob
• William
• Ethan

All the names of 2015

Wael elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Wael: rank by region

In 2024, Wael was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.

In 2024, Wael was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2024, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Wael appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (181st).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Wael by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Wael among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Wael lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 673 men called Wael were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 24 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 28 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.