El-Ali
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
El-Ali is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Syria than in any other country, where it is the 34th most common surname. El-Ali is also written Елали in Cyrillic and ელალი in Georgian.
- SYSyria≈1 in 980(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 14K
- LBLebanon≈1 in 14Kfew records
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 El-Ali itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Syria (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 77 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 979 (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
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
El-Ali in other scripts: Cyrillic and Georgian
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Elali in SY Syria, TR Türkiye, US United States 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.
Where the surname El-Ali is found
(measured from records)El-Ali 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY Syria | #34 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 979 | — | Elali | 9 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Elali | 15 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 116K | — | Elali | 4 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Elali | 12 |
| IQ Iraq | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 122K | — | Elali | 2 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 121K | — | Elali | 16 |
| US United States | — | 198 | 1 in 1.7M | 272 | Elali | 77 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname El-Ali?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named El-Ali in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elali. After it come Türkiye, Congo - Kinshasa, Lebanon and Iraq; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name El-Ali?
- In the United States, the national register counted 198 people named El-Ali in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
- How common is El-Ali compared with other names?
- In Syria, El-Ali is the 34th most common surname of 190,062 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/el-aliThe 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, “El-Ali” — the 34th most common surname in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.