Aĺly

surname · Latin script

Aĺly is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country, where it is the 42nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): scattered. see Alley . Allyn • GB frequency 1881: 2 • Main GB location 1881: Lancs English: see Allen . Almack.

  • TZTanzania≈1 in 250(inferred from the name graph)
  • SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 4.2Kfew records
  • SESweden1 in 7.8K

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 Aĺly 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.

Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)

≈270,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
367 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 252 (inferred from the name graph)

Tanzania, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
AĺlyLatin(measured from records)
เอลลThai(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ally in US United States, TZ Tanzania, AU Australia and 3 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)

Main GB Location (1881): scattered. see Alley . Allyn • GB frequency 1881: 2 • Main GB location 1881: Lancs English: see Allen . Almack

Cited for this meaning 6

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
  • Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Aĺly 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.

Where Aĺly is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TZ Tanzania#42≈270,000 est.≈1 in 25213Ally61
US United States—13,5251 in 25K13KAlly367
SA Saudi Arabia—≈8,400 est.≈1 in 4.2K—Ally15
ZA South Africa—≈2,700 est.≈1 in 24K—Ally76
AU Australia—≈2,600 est.≈1 in 10K3Ally153
FI Finland—2,330as Alli1 in 2.4K12K—3
SE Sweden—1,3081 in 7.8K1.3KAlly19

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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Aĺly under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Aĺly mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): scattered. see Alley . Allyn • GB frequency 1881: 2 • Main GB location 1881: Lancs English: see Allen . Almack Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 4 other sources.
In which country does Aĺly have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 272 thousand people named Aĺly in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ally.
How common is the name Aĺly?
In the United States, the national register counted 13,525 people named Aĺly in 2020, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
How common is Aĺly compared with other names?
In Tanzania, Aĺly is the 42nd most common given name of 37,285 given names recorded there.

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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, “Aĺly” — the 42nd most common given name in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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