Wali — #3283 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Wali

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,192 babies named Wali between 1951 and 2024, spanning 74 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Wali currently holds the #3283 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 65 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Wali performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 350 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Wali shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New Jersey, which accounts for 88 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Wali in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Wali 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 1,192 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.