Hali
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Biblical name
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɑːʎi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hali is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 82K(measured from records)
- ALAlbania1 in 96K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 143K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 296 (measured from records)
- 1 in 82K (inferred from the name graph)
4,037 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Biblical name
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hali 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 | 4,037 | 1 in 82K | 4K | Hali | 296 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 143K | listed | Hali | 20 |
| CA Canada | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 221K | 1 | Hali | 77 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 595K | 4 | Hali | 51 |
| FR France | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 666K | 7 | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 145K | — | Hali | 4 |
| AL Albania | 32 | 1 in 96K | 32 | — | — |
4,037 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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Hali 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.
adorned; ornmental.
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
condition, state
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
Character.
as a nameThe African book of names
In dag, 1. very ‘until, up as far as (at beginning 2. very much. of clause); very much, too 3. until much (put at end of clause)’ 4. even Haliya n. idiomatic expresson meaning ‘Na’ Ya’, the location of Ya Naa
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
In bpz, wipe off, wipe away, rub away, brush away (esp. of tears, but also of dirt)
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)
- Tamba Halib. 1983USLiberian American football player (born 1983)
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)
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)
Attested in 45 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 7 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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
- How do you pronounce Hali?
- A machine transcription gives /ɑːʎi/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Hali?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,037 people named Hali in 2020, about 1 in 82 thousand residents.
- What does the name Hali mean, and where does it come from?
- Biblical name Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- Is Hali a male or female name?
- Hali is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Hali have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.0 thousand people named Hali, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hali.
- Where is Hali most common?
- Hali is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 82 thousand people carrying it.
What do you want to know about Hali?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/haliThe 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, “Hali”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.