Meaning not yet researched.
Ali: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,116 in 2025. Its best rank was #301 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #301 in 2022; #306 in 2025. About 96% of babies named Ali in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#306 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #301.
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Ali: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,116 boys in 2025. Peak: #301 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 1,124 (2022).
In 2025, 1,116 US boys were named Ali, making it the 306th most common boys’ name of the year, up 17 places from #323 in 2024. That is 50 more than the 1,066 boys named Ali in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #301, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,124. For comparison, it was #325 in 2015 and #2,021 in 1950.
In 2025, 44 US girls were named Ali, making it the 3,463rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 955 places from #2,508 in 2024. That is 27 fewer than the 71 girls named Ali in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #661, reached in 1986. The most girls given the name in a single year was 391, in 2011. For comparison, it was #1,280 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ali in 98 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 5 babies. In all, 44,888 US babies have been given the name, 23% of them girls and 77% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 12,144 babies named Ali.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 10,713 US boys were named Ali; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 1,124. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,531 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ali ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #50 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Allie (56,372 babies since 1880), Alia (14,028 babies since 1880), Aliya (11,075 babies since 1880) and Ally (10,247 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aily, Aliou and Arli are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Seediq. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aily (217), Aliou (185), Arli (141), Ghali (131), Aleo (53), Aley (39), Ayeli (7), Aheli (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ali in the open dataset we use.
Ali is listed as a nickname for Alison, Allisandra, Allison, Allyson, Allyssa, Almena.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 17 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 157 | #50 | #80 |
| New York | 116 | #166 | #197 |
| District of Columbia | 5 | #169 | #216 |
| Virginia | 51 | #179 | #224 |
| Illinois | 63 | #186 | #277 |
| Massachusetts | 27 | #223 | #256 |
| New Jersey | 41 | #231 | #214 |
| Maryland | 23 | #243 | #363 |
| Ohio | 42 | #287 | #284 |
| Connecticut | 10 | #296 | #246 |
| Washington | 24 | #309 | #319 |
| Texas | 114 | #326 | #399 |
| Colorado | 19 | #330 | #417 |
| California | 108 | #334 | #358 |
| Pennsylvania | 32 | #342 | #419 |
| Missouri | 18 | #346 | #360 |
| North Carolina | 31 | #365 | #419 |
| Minnesota | 15 | #373 | #292 |
| Idaho | 6 | #377 | #344 |
| Nevada | 7 | #390 | — |
| Georgia | 29 | #393 | #350 |
| Arizona | 19 | #393 | #488 |
| Indiana | 16 | #433 | #455 |
| Iowa | 7 | #450 | — |
| Louisiana | 10 | #452 | #505 |
| Tennessee | 17 | #452 | #425 |
| Wisconsin | 10 | #484 | #603 |
| Florida | 37 | #489 | #296 |
| Utah | 8 | #516 | #562 |
| Oregon | 6 | #532 | #357 |
| Kansas | 5 | #593 | #461 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #622 | #517 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #627 | #336 |
| Alabama | 5 | #767 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #3,463 | 1,116 | #306 |
| 2024 | 71 | #2,508 | 1,066 | #323 |
| 2023 | 74 | #2,416 | 1,066 | #311 |
| 2022 | 88 | #2,157 | 1,124 | #301 |
| 2021 | 103 | #1,911 | 958 | #339 |
| 2020 | 93 | #2,006 | 1,017 | #324 |
| 2019 | 130 | #1,629 | 1,069 | #314 |
| 2018 | 111 | #1,830 | 1,094 | #310 |
| 2017 | 118 | #1,770 | 1,116 | #310 |
| 2016 | 154 | #1,485 | 1,087 | #322 |
| 2015 | 190 | #1,280 | 1,061 | #325 |
| 2014 | 240 | #1,068 | 1,011 | #334 |
| 2013 | 251 | #996 | 902 | #351 |
| 2012 | 307 | #865 | 872 | #352 |
| 2011 | 391 | #710 | 803 | #372 |
| 2010 | 387 | #724 | 850 | #357 |
| 2009 | 284 | #941 | 818 | #371 |
| 2008 | 320 | #872 | 742 | #398 |
| 2007 | 244 | #1,075 | 783 | #386 |
| 2006 | 241 | #1,060 | 827 | #359 |
| 2005 | 238 | #1,021 | 760 | #380 |
| 2004 | 284 | #865 | 726 | #379 |
| 2003 | 188 | #1,149 | 810 | #344 |
| 2002 | 193 | #1,098 | 870 | #319 |
| 2001 | 202 | #1,057 | 715 | #373 |
| 2000 | 235 | #919 | 684 | #380 |
| 1999 | 248 | #867 | 650 | #391 |
| 1998 | 269 | #797 | 622 | #394 |
| 1997 | 303 | #708 | 591 | #397 |
| 1996 | 325 | #676 | 528 | #426 |
| 1995 | 291 | #712 | 517 | #442 |
| 1994 | 314 | #675 | 478 | #460 |
| 1993 | 301 | #709 | 443 | #475 |
| 1992 | 268 | #771 | 447 | #477 |
| 1991 | 300 | #705 | 424 | #479 |
| 1990 | 308 | #688 | 440 | #472 |
| 1989 | 261 | #752 | 385 | #487 |
| 1988 | 226 | #810 | 333 | #501 |
| 1987 | 258 | #707 | 308 | #512 |
| 1986 | 280 | #661 | 286 | #525 |
| 1985 | 160 | #964 | 283 | #519 |
| 1984 | 125 | #1,103 | 263 | #529 |
| 1983 | 81 | #1,434 | 237 | #545 |
| 1982 | 66 | #1,703 | 265 | #524 |
| 1981 | 65 | #1,734 | 237 | #550 |
| 1980 | 69 | #1,657 | 249 | #545 |
| 1979 | 82 | #1,461 | 318 | #455 |
| 1978 | 65 | #1,635 | 256 | #510 |
| 1977 | 64 | #1,638 | 196 | #603 |
| 1976 | 70 | #1,482 | 198 | #577 |
| 1975 | 66 | #1,527 | 163 | #633 |
| 1974 | 97 | #1,166 | 158 | #641 |
| 1973 | 101 | #1,109 | 113 | #753 |
| 1972 | 100 | #1,111 | 118 | #732 |
| 1971 | 108 | #1,104 | 136 | #707 |
| 1970 | 33 | #2,308 | 77 | #911 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,464 | 68 | #921 |
| 1968 | — | — | 52 | #1,026 |
| 1967 | — | — | 38 | #1,217 |
| 1966 | — | — | 35 | #1,282 |
| 1965 | — | — | 46 | #1,094 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,017 | 48 | #1,096 |
| 1963 | — | — | 35 | #1,318 |
| 1962 | — | — | 32 | #1,387 |
| 1961 | — | — | 29 | #1,497 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,706 | 25 | #1,619 |
| 1959 | — | — | 25 | #1,589 |
| 1958 | — | — | 18 | #1,896 |
| 1957 | — | — | 15 | #2,094 |
| 1956 | — | — | 15 | #2,092 |
| 1955 | — | — | 17 | #1,904 |
| 1954 | — | — | 20 | #1,708 |
| 1953 | — | — | 16 | #1,958 |
| 1952 | — | — | 17 | #1,857 |
| 1951 | — | — | 9 | #2,667 |
| 1950 | — | — | 14 | #2,021 |
| 1949 | — | — | 8 | #2,805 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #3,686 |
| 1947 | — | — | 6 | #3,373 |
| 1946 | — | — | 5 | #3,538 |
| 1945 | — | — | 7 | #2,749 |
| 1944 | — | — | 11 | #2,196 |
| 1943 | — | — | 8 | #2,740 |
| 1941 | — | — | 7 | #2,880 |
| 1940 | — | — | 8 | #2,672 |
| 1939 | — | — | 6 | #3,119 |
| 1938 | — | — | 7 | #2,872 |
| 1937 | — | — | 8 | #2,685 |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #3,557 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #3,691 |
| 1933 | — | — | 6 | #3,277 |
| 1931 | — | — | 6 | #3,395 |
| 1930 | — | — | 7 | #3,296 |
| 1928 | — | — | 6 | #3,710 |
| 1927 | — | — | 7 | #3,457 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,215 |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,364 |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,271 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).