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Alli

#6,338 in 2025Girls' name

Long-tailed duck

Alli has been given to 3,810 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #6,338 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 205 recorded.

Babies named Alli, 2025

1 in 184,000

Alli over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alli: meaning, origin, and history

Long-tailed duck

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alli means

Alli means “long-tailed duck”, associated with alli.

Origin, language, and formation

Alli is used in Finnish, Hausa and Icelandic.

Alli comes through Swedish Alfhild.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alina.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Alli is pronounced /ˈɑlːi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,805 girls were recorded with the name Alli between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 205 in 2011; its best national rank was #1,177 in 2011.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,614 in 2020 to #6,338 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,140 in 2015 to #6,338 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Alli between 2003 and 2003. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2003; its best national rank was #10,947 in 2003.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Alli?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 89,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,338
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alli sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alli. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Allis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alli was born before 2005 — so the typical Alli is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
39.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,794
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 39.6% of all recorded uses (1,506).

Is Alli rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,438
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,724
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,198
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.20×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.8%
Peak was 2011 (205)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,177
2011

Spellings of Alli

Alli is not the most common spelling — Ella is, with 20.6% against Alli's 0.22%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Alli is used

Across 1910–2025, Alli was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 74,549 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 16,667
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 20,000
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 25,000
  4. 4Alabama1 in 50,000
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 50,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 50,000
  7. 7Indiana1 in 50,000
  8. 8Kentucky1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Alli has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alli around the world

Where Alli ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–1999
    #3,900
    in 1999
  • Scotland
    2012–2012
    #665
    in 2012
  • Ireland
    2004–2010
    #910
    in 2010
  • Canada
    1999–2013
    #3,199
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1992–1999
    #729
    in 1999

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Alli in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Alli. Linked forms have their own page here.

AliAlyAlisAllyElliAliouAllieAllinAllisAlī

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Alli by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,338
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,724
Best rank ever
#1,177
2011
Peak year
2011
205 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,805
Count in 2025
18

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,947
2003
Peak year
2003
5 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2003
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Alli

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AllyAllaAllynElliAllanaAlleeAlleyAllenaLilliCalliAlleneKalliAllegraAlliyahMolliAllenAllyssaHolliAlluraAlliaHalliAllysaAllissonAlliah

Names with a curve like Alli

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Alli, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MakenziBrynnaEmaleeKaileighAbriannaVianeyShaelynKendylJacieShaylynnAbagailLexy

Sibling names for Alli

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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