알
surname · Hangul script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
알 is a surname written in the Hangul script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the most common given name.
- SYSyria≈1 in 92as Ali(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye1 in 111as Ali
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 115as Ali
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than 알 itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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)
- Sources
- 551 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 92 (inferred from the name graph)
736,478 named Ali, 2025
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Syria, est., as Ali
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
알 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 | 736,478as Ali | 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)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does 알 have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 736 thousand people named Ali, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name 알?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 736,478 people named Ali in 2025, about 1 in 111 residents.
- How common is 알 compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, 알 is the most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about 알?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%EC%95%8CThe 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, “알” — the most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.