Alai
given name · Latin script
Meaning: second-person plural imperative of alar (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- Spain (INE): listed as male
- Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed under both sexes
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries
/alai/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Alai is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 37K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 108K
- ARArgentina≈1 in 110K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 60 (measured from records)
- 1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Alai
- Spanish:/alai/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)second-person plural imperative of alar
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Alai 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.
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: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Alai is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Basque, vigorous, spirited, passionate; merry, happy, gay
as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
In Russian, Alai Vasil'ev syn Lodyzhenskogo, Moscow noble. 1565.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In frp, Alternative form of alar (“to go”) documented in the following location(s): Fontainemore
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, first-person singular past historic of alare
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, crowd that follows a ceremony
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)39 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Alai a male or female name?
- Alai is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: Spain (INE): listed as male; Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed under both sexes; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- What does the name Alai mean, and where does it come from?
- second-person plural imperative of alar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Alai?
- In Spanish /alai/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people named Alai?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.1 thousand people named Alai in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alai. After it come Nigeria, Spain, Argentina and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Alai most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alai is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 37 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Alai?
- In Spain, the national register counted 461 people named Alai, about 1 in 108 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alaiThe 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, “Alai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.