as a First Name
As a girl's name it is a pet form of Alison, Alice (as in the case of American film actress Ali MacGraw, b. 1938), or any of the other female names formed with this first syllable. It is now also used as an independent given name. As a boy's name, it is used as a pet form of Alistair and is also an independent given name from an Arabic word meaning ‘sublime’ see ῾Ali.
| 800th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 49,182
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Michigan
- has the most people named Ali per capita
- 2010
- marked the height of its popularity
25%
75%
0.03%
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11%
30-54
30-54
26%
13-29
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63%
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Top state populations
U.S. Distribution Map
