Ghali

#7,843 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Ghali has been given to 131 babies in the U.S. since 2009. In 2025 it ranked #7,843 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Ghali, 2025

1 in 332,000

Ghali over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Ghali?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,843
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ghali sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ghali. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ghalis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ghali was born before 2017 — so the typical Ghali is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
49.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
131
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Choose a decade

2010s — 49.6% of all recorded uses (65).

Is Ghali 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
−2,106
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,151
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,178
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.25×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
62.5%
Peak was 2024 (16)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,737
2024

Spellings of Ghali

Ghali is not the most common spelling — Ali is, with 28.1% against Ghali's 0.11%.

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.

Ghali around the world

Where Ghali 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.

  • France
    1958–2025
    #508
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2001–2024
    #1,232
    in 2024

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Ghali by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,843
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,151
Best rank ever
#5,737
2024
Peak year
2024
16 that year
First recorded
2009
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
131
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Ghali

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

Sibling names for Ghali

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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