In 2025, 18 US girls were named Alli, making it the 6,339th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,436 places from #4,903 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 27 girls named Alli in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,177, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 205. For comparison, it was #2,140 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alli in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 5 babies. In all, 3,810 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,511 babies named Alli.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 355 US girls were named Alli; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 60. In 2025 that was about 1 in 89,293 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Allie (56,372 babies since 1880), Ally (10,247 babies since 1880), Elli (2,798 babies since 1880) and Ali (44,888 babies since 1880).
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Finnish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.