Əli

given name · Latin script

A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Əli is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Arabic عَلِيّ (ʕaliyy).

  • SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 110as Ali(inferred from the name graph)
  • KWKuwait≈1 in 110as Ali
  • CYCyprus≈1 in 110as Ali

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Əli itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Türkiye (measured from records)

736,478 named Ali, 2025

#31 (measured from records)

of 15M given names, spellings grouped

6 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
551 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 106 (inferred from the name graph)

Cyprus, est., as Ali

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)Make your nomograph ✦

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
AliLatin(measured from records)
АлиCyrillic(measured from records)
ალიGeorgian(measured from records)
ԱլիArmenian(measured from records)
알리Hangul(measured from records)
AِِliArabic(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ali in TR Türkiye, IN India, SY Syria and 5 more.

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 عَلِيّ (ʕaliyy).

Cited for this meaning 1

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Əli 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.

Where Əli is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#1736,478as Ali1 in 111736KAli227
EG Egypt#12≈440,000 est.≈1 in 264—Ali222
IN India—≈410,000 est.≈1 in 3.5K1.3MAli227
SA Saudi Arabia#5≈310,000 est.≈1 in 113—Ali230
NG Nigeria#37≈290,000 est.≈1 in 815—Ali108
SY Syria#4≈200,000 est.≈1 in 123—Ali90
KW Kuwait#4≈44,000 est.≈1 in 111—Ali167
CY Cyprus#1≈13,000 est.≈1 in 106—Ali46

736,478 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used given names, 2025. 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: TÜİK NIP — most used given names; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Əli is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Əли

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
500100015002000Ali, b. 599Muhammad Ali, b. 1769Muhammad Ali Bogra, b. 1909Ali Hassan Mwinyi, b. 1925Adonis, b. 1930Imam Khamenei, b. 1939Ali Abdullah Saleh, b. 1947Ali Larijani, b. 1958Ali Bongo Ondimba, b. 1959Ali Larter, b. 1976
  • Alib. 599SA4th Rashidun Caliph (r. 656–661) and first Shia Imam
  • Muhammad Alib. 1769GRWali of Egypt and Sudan (1769–1849)
  • Muhammad Ali Bograb. 1909PKPrime Minister of Pakistan from 1953 to 1955
  • Ali Hassan Mwinyib. 1925TZTanzanian statesman (1925–2024)
  • Adonisb. 1930SYnot in their usual nameSyrian poet, writer and translator (born 1930)
  • Imam Khameneib. 1939IRnot in their usual nameSupreme Leader of Iran from 1989 to 2026
  • Ali Abdullah Salehb. 1947YEPresident of North Yemen (1978–1990) and Yemen (1990–2012)
  • Ali Larijanib. 1958IRIranian politician and military officer (1958–2026)
  • Ali Bongo Ondimbab. 1959GAPresident of Gabon (2009–2023)
  • Ali Larterb. 1976USAmerican actress and model (born 1976)

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).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Əli under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Əli mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Arabic عَلِيّ (ʕaliyy). Recorded by Wiktionary.
What are other forms of the name Əli?
In the etymology graph, Alija and 'Ali are forms of the same name in other languages.
Is Əli a male or female name?
Əli is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Azerbaijan (Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice).
In which country does Əli have the most bearers?
In Türkiye, the national register counted about 736 thousand people named Ali, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Əli?
In Türkiye, the national register counted 736,478 people named Ali in 2025, about 1 in 111 residents.
How common is Əli compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Əli is the most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.

What do you want to know about Əli?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C9%99li

The 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, “Əli” — the most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

See how Əli parses inside a full name →