Äĺi
surname · Latin script
Äĺi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Ottoman Turkish علی (Ali), from Arabic عَلِيّ (ʕaliyy).
- SYSyria≈1 in 92(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye1 in 111
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 115
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (measured from records)
- #31 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 551 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 92 (inferred from the name graph)
736,478 people, 2025
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ali in TR Türkiye, SY Syria, EG Egypt and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Ottoman TurkishعلیAli(measured from records)
- Arabicعَلِيّʕaliyy(measured from records)
From Ottoman Turkish علی (Ali), from Arabic عَلِيّ (ʕaliyy).
Cited for this meaning 13
- A Handbook of African Names
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- The African book of names
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
Attested across 33 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Äĺi counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #1 | 736,478 | 1 in 111 | 736K | Ali | 227 |
| NG Nigeria | #37 | ≈360,000 est. | ≈1 in 594 | — | Ali | 108 |
| EG Egypt | #12 | ≈360,000 est. | ≈1 in 290 | — | Ali | 222 |
| AF Afghanistan | #4 | ≈300,000 est. | ≈1 in 121 | — | Ali | 50 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #5 | ≈300,000 est. | ≈1 in 115 | — | Ali | 230 |
| SY Syria | #4 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 92 | — | Ali | 90 |
| KW Kuwait | #4 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 121 | — | Ali | 167 |
736,478 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used given names, 2025. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: TÜİK NIP — most used given names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Äĺi mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ottoman Turkish علی (Ali), from Arabic عَلِيّ (ʕaliyy). Recorded by A Handbook of African Names and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 11 other sources.
- In which country does Äĺi have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 736 thousand people named Äĺi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ali.
- How common is the name Äĺi?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 736,478 people named Äĺi in 2025, about 1 in 111 residents.
- How common is Äĺi compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Äĺi is the most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A4%C4%BAiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Äĺi” — the most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.