Meaning not yet researched.
Wali: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 56 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,477 in 1975.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,477 in 1975; #2,448 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Wali in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,448 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1975, at #1,477.
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Wali: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 56 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,477 in 1975 · most boys in one year: 65 (2016).
In 2025, 56 US boys were named Wali, making it the 2,448th most common boys’ name of the year, up 879 places from #3,327 in 2024. That is 20 more than the 36 boys named Wali in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,477, reached in 1975. The most boys given the name in a single year was 65, in 2016. For comparison, it was #3,019 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Wali in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1951 with 5 babies. In all, 1,248 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 350 babies named Wali.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 485 US boys were named Wali; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 65. In 2025 that was about 1 in 30,501 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Wali ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #1,401 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Wally (5,101 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Wali in the open dataset we use.
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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 8 | #1,401 | #1,606 |
| Texas | 8 | #2,067 | — |
| California | 5 | #2,796 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 56 | #2,448 |
| 2024 | — | — | 36 | #3,327 |
| 2023 | — | — | 37 | #3,286 |
| 2022 | — | — | 45 | #2,867 |
| 2021 | — | — | 39 | #3,116 |
| 2020 | — | — | 52 | #2,504 |
| 2019 | — | — | 51 | #2,579 |
| 2018 | — | — | 49 | #2,616 |
| 2017 | — | — | 55 | #2,385 |
| 2016 | — | — | 65 | #2,144 |
| 2015 | — | — | 39 | #3,019 |
| 2014 | — | — | 24 | #4,255 |
| 2013 | — | — | 18 | #5,159 |
| 2012 | — | — | 17 | #5,467 |
| 2011 | — | — | 17 | #5,415 |
| 2010 | — | — | 15 | #6,018 |
| 2009 | — | — | 13 | #6,787 |
| 2008 | — | — | 20 | #4,891 |
| 2007 | — | — | 15 | #5,890 |
| 2006 | — | — | 23 | #4,213 |
| 2005 | — | — | 18 | #4,814 |
| 2004 | — | — | 13 | #6,120 |
| 2003 | — | — | 17 | #4,809 |
| 2002 | — | — | 16 | #4,901 |
| 2001 | — | — | 16 | #4,881 |
| 2000 | — | — | 9 | #7,380 |
| 1999 | — | — | 9 | #7,109 |
| 1998 | — | — | 16 | #4,405 |
| 1997 | — | — | 11 | #5,629 |
| 1996 | — | — | 11 | #5,521 |
| 1995 | — | — | 12 | #5,110 |
| 1994 | — | — | 10 | #5,851 |
| 1993 | — | — | 7 | #7,607 |
| 1992 | — | — | 18 | #3,601 |
| 1991 | — | — | 10 | #5,497 |
| 1990 | — | — | 12 | #4,661 |
| 1989 | — | — | 6 | #7,874 |
| 1988 | — | — | 16 | #3,341 |
| 1987 | — | — | 17 | #3,066 |
| 1986 | — | — | 14 | #3,435 |
| 1985 | — | — | 11 | #4,038 |
| 1984 | — | — | 16 | #2,950 |
| 1983 | — | — | 17 | #2,785 |
| 1982 | — | — | 19 | #2,593 |
| 1981 | — | — | 14 | #3,212 |
| 1980 | — | — | 17 | #2,826 |
| 1979 | — | — | 18 | #2,667 |
| 1978 | — | — | 27 | #1,911 |
| 1977 | — | — | 25 | #2,005 |
| 1976 | — | — | 36 | #1,537 |
| 1975 | — | — | 37 | #1,477 |
| 1974 | — | — | 6 | #5,208 |
| 1973 | — | — | 12 | #3,009 |
| 1972 | — | — | 11 | #3,145 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #5,016 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #4,120 |
| 1967 | — | — | 7 | #3,547 |
| 1966 | — | — | 6 | #3,933 |
| 1965 | — | — | 9 | #2,973 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #4,229 |
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).