Çali
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʃali/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Çali is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Arabic عَلِي (ʕalī).
- ECEcuador1 in 3.5K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 33K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 37K
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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- Sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
4,813 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Arabic عَلِي (ʕalī).
Sources 4
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Çali 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | 4,813 | 1 in 3.5K | 4.8K | — | — |
| US United States | 2,827 | 1 in 118K | 17K | — | 5 |
| AR Argentina | 1,358 | 1 in 33K | 1.4K | — | — |
| ES Spain | 249 | 1 in 201K | 249 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 228 | 1 in 37K | 228 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 153 | 1 in 77K | 153 | — | — |
4,813 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Çali mean, and where does it come from?
- From Arabic عَلِي (ʕalī). Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 2 other sources.
- How do you pronounce Çali?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃali/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Çali have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 4.8 thousand people named Çali, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Çali most common?
- Çali is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Çali?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 4,813 people named Çali in 2024, about 1 in 3.5 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A7aliThe 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, “Çali”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.