Li — unisex name

What the Data Says About Li

The Social Security Administration has registered 250 babies named Li between 1952 and 2009, spanning 58 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Li currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2009. The name reached its historical peak in 1983, when 14 babies received it in a single year. Li is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 132 additional births since 1976.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Li performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 82 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Li shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 38 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Li in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Li 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 250 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.