Dalí
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries
/d̪ali/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Dalí is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Possibly from dalí (“stick for fording”), from Arabic دَلِيل (dalīl, “sign, guide”).
- ALAlbania1 in 20K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 128K
- SISlovenia1 in 150K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 101 (measured from records)
- 1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
586 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Dali in US United States, BR Brazil, TN Tunisia.
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)Possibly from dalí (“stick for fording”), from Arabic دَلِيل (dalīl, “sign, guide”).
Cited for this meaning 2
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dalí 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 586 | 1 in 568K | 378 | Dali | 101 |
| BR Brazil | 250 | 1 in 847K | 274 | Dali | 35 |
| AL Albania | 152 | 1 in 20K | 152 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 105 | 1 in 165K | 67 | — | 4 |
| PL Poland | 85 | 1 in 450K | 82 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 80 | 1 in 128K | 80 | — | 2 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 294K | — | Dali | 8 |
| SI Slovenia | 14 | 1 in 150K | 8 | — | — |
586 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); SURS — resident population 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Dalí is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In pag, hurriedly
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Salvador Dalí i Cusíb. 1872ESfather of Salvador Dalí the surrealist painter
- Salvador Dalíb. 1904ESSpanish artist (1904–1989)
- Anna Maria Dalíb. 1908ESCatalan author and Salvador Dalí's sister
- Sándor Dalib. 1930ROHungarian journalist, editor and theatre manager from Romania (1930-2010)
- Fabienne Dalib. 1941BEBelgian actress
- Jette Plesner Dalib. 1948DKDanish politician
- Tracy Dalib. 1966USAmerican actress and model
- Kenza Dalib. 1991FRFrench footballer
- Mohamed Souhaib Dalib. 1998TNTunisian chess player
- Faten Al-DaliTNTunisian actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 67 | #7,069 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 38 | #7,941 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dalí mean, and where does it come from?
- Possibly from dalí (“stick for fording”), from Arabic دَلِيل (dalīl, “sign, guide”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Dalí?
- In Spanish /d̪ali/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Dalí a male or female name?
- Dalí is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: Netherlands (Meertens NVB). We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Dalí have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 586 people named Dalí, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dali.
- Where is Dalí most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dalí is densest in Albania — about 1 in 20 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dalí?
- In the United States, the national register counted 586 people named Dalí in 2020, about 1 in 568 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Dalí?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dal%C3%ADThe 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, “Dalí”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.