Walí
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Walí is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Arabic وَالٍ (wālin).
- NONorway1 in 28K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 68K
- DKDenmark1 in 90K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 191 (measured from records)
- 1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
547 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Waeli 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)
Borrowed from Arabic وَالٍ (wālin).
Sources 3
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Walí 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 | 547 | 1 in 608K | 1.3K | Waeli | 191 |
| IN India | 304 | 1 in 4.4M | 304 | — | 64 |
| NO Norway | 198 | 1 in 28K | 228 | — | 5 |
| ES Spain | 73 | 1 in 685K | 73 | — | 5 |
| DK Denmark | 65 | 1 in 90K | 65 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 65 | 1 in 266K | 65 | — | 15 |
| FI Finland | 49 | 1 in 114K | 90 | — | 4 |
| GY Guyana | 11 | 1 in 68K | 11 | — | 2 |
547 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling wali. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Walí mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Arabic وَالٍ (wālin). Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Is Walí a male or female name?
- Walí is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Walí have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 547 people named Walí, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled waeli.
- Where is Walí most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Walí is densest in Norway — about 1 in 28 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Walí?
- In the United States, the national register counted 547 people named Walí in 2010, about 1 in 608 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/wal%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, “Walí”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.