Dali
Dali was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,200 among girls’ names; 211 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dali by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dali?
#12,200 among girls’ names, 2025
Dali rose from #13,330 in 2015 to #12,200 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 4.4 per million.
14 babies in 2008, the peak
Dali peaked in 2008, when 14 babies were given it (8 girls, #12,871 among girls’ names). The 7 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,200 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,460 | 6 | #11,226 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,435 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,542 | 6 | #11,157 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,474 | 5 | #12,536 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,445 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,612 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,205 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,330 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,015 | 7 | #9,856 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 6 | #15,059 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,415 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,691 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,425 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,686 | 5 | #12,878 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,871 | 6 | #11,340 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,953 | 5 | #12,744 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,097 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,717 | 6 | #10,223 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,276 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,936 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,004 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,919 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,925 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,966 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 5 | #8,658 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Dali a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 211 Americans recorded as Dali, 76% are girls and 24% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dali: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dali, and how old are they?
An estimated 209 Americans named Dali and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 5 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 586 people named Dali (378 women and girls, 208 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 151 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Dali rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 47,050 babies since 1880, Dali is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 2,070 babies (<1%), the seventh most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dali
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Dali and names like it
- Compare Dali and DahliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDali peaked in 2008.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Dali.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Dali alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.