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Ali
Pronounced /ˈɑːli/
Rank in 2024
#325
Born in 2024
1,061
Peak year
2022 · #301
Origin
Arabic
Also recorded for girls:70 in 2024 (#2,552)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,061 boys were named Ali, about 1 in every 1,617.
- It peaked in 2022 with 1,124 babies, ranked #301.
- It first shows up in the records in 1914.
- 33,255 boys have been named Ali since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Ali per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- 0.2Millennials1981–96
- 0.4Gen Z1997–12
- 0.6Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 22 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 97 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 359 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 2,221 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Millennials: 5,874 babies, 0.19 per 1,000. Gen Z: 12,119 babies, 0.39 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 12,563 babies, 0.58 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Arabic عَلِيّ (ʕaliyy, literally “high, exalted”), from the Arabic root ع ل ي (ʕ l y). ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈɑːli/ Rhymes: -ɑːli ==== Proper noun ==== Ali (plural Alis) A male given name from Arabic. (Islam) The caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib, considered by Shiites to be Muhammad's first successor (imam). Synonym: Haydar (birth name and common epithet in Shiite literature) A surname from Arabic. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ===== Translations =====
- A male given name from Arabic.
- A diminutive of the female given name Alison or of its variants.
- A diminutive of the male given name Alistair or of its variants.
- Origin
- Arabic
- Say it
- /ˈɑːli/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Ali, CC BY-SA 4.0.