Ali — #324 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Ali

The Social Security Administration has registered 33,255 babies named Ali between 1914 and 2024, spanning 111 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ali currently holds the #324 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 1,124 babies received it in a single year. Ali is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 10,455 additional births since 1960.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ali performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 9,863 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Ali shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Michigan, which accounts for 4,556 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Ali in 43 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ali in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 33,255 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.