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Yali

UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

My God

Yali has been given to 127 babies in the U.S. since 2008. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2022, with 12 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 76% girls, 24% boys all-time.

Babies named Yali, 2024

1 in 418,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Yali over time

In 2024, Yali went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

20042024

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Yali: meaning, origin, and history

My God

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yali means

Yali means “my God”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Yali is used in Hebrew.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 96 girls were recorded with the name Yali between 2008 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2022; its best national rank was #8,961 in 2023.

In the United States, 31 boys were recorded with the name Yali between 2004 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2016; its best national rank was #9,616 in 2016.

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.

How common is Yali?

Yali had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 418,000
8 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 203,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yali 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 2024 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 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yali. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yalis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yali was born before 2019 — so the typical Yali is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
96
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Choose a decade

2020s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (48).

Is Yali 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2022 (12)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,961
2023

Spellings of Yali

Yali is not the most common spelling — Kari is, with 8.4% against Yali's 0.01%.

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 Yali is used

Across 1910–2025, Yali was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,668,796 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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. Yali has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yali around the world

Where Yali 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
    2024–2025
    #6,788
    in 2025

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

Yali by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,961
2023
Peak year
2022
12 that year
First recorded
2008
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
96
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,616
2016
Peak year
2016
8 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
31
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Yali

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

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Sibling names for Yali

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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