Awali
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Awali is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: The beginning; first.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 2M
- BRBrazil1 in 3.4M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2M (inferred from the name graph)
62 people
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Aw-Ali in US United States.
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)
The beginning; first.
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Awali 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 62 | 1 in 3.4M | 62 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 7 | 1 in 1.2M | 7 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 6 | 1 in 2M | 6 | — | 2 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | — | — | Awali | 10 |
| BH Bahrain | — | — | — | Awali | 2 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Aw-Ali | 18 |
62 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)
Awali is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Joyful.
as a nameThe African book of names
In Swahili, origin, beginning
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 62 | #90,038 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 7 | #79,838 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 6 | #91,725 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- What does the name Awali mean, and where does it come from?
- The beginning; first. Recorded by The African book of names.
- In which country does Awali have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 62 people named Awali, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Awali most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Awali is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 1.2 million people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Awali?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 62 people named Awali, about 1 in 3.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Awali?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/awaliThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Awali”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.