Ali
#3,459 for girls in 2025, 44 births · #306 for boys in 2025, 1,116 births
Given to boys 76.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 1,124 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 34,383since 1914
Ali over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,459 | 44 | #306 | 1,116 |
| 2024 | #2,508 | 71 | #323 | 1,066 |
| 2023 | #2,415 | 74 | #311 | 1,066 |
| 2022 | #2,156 | 88 | #301 | 1,124 |
| 2021 | #1,910 | 103 | #339 | 958 |
| 2020 | #2,005 | 93 | #324 | 1,017 |
| 2019 | #1,629 | 130 | #314 | 1,069 |
| 2018 | #1,830 | 111 | #310 | 1,094 |
| 2017 | #1,770 | 118 | #310 | 1,116 |
| 2016 | #1,485 | 154 | #322 | 1,087 |
| 2015 | #1,280 | 190 | #325 | 1,061 |
| 2014 | #1,068 | 240 | #334 | 1,011 |
| 2013 | #996 | 251 | #351 | 902 |
| 2012 | #865 | 307 | #352 | 872 |
| 2011 | #710 | 391 | #372 | 803 |
| 2010 | #724 | 387 | #357 | 850 |
| 2009 | #941 | 284 | #371 | 818 |
| 2008 | #872 | 320 | #398 | 742 |
| 2007 | #1,075 | 244 | #386 | 783 |
| 2006 | #1,060 | 241 | #359 | 827 |
| 2005 | #1,021 | 238 | #380 | 760 |
| 2004 | #865 | 284 | #379 | 726 |
| 2003 | #1,149 | 188 | #344 | 810 |
| 2002 | #1,098 | 193 | #319 | 870 |
| 2001 | #1,056 | 202 | #373 | 715 |
| 2000 | #919 | 235 | #380 | 684 |
| 1999 | #867 | 248 | #391 | 650 |
| 1998 | #797 | 269 | #394 | 622 |
| 1997 | #708 | 303 | #397 | 591 |
| 1996 | #676 | 325 | #426 | 528 |
| 1995 | #712 | 291 | #442 | 517 |
| 1994 | #675 | 314 | #460 | 478 |
| 1993 | #709 | 301 | #475 | 443 |
| 1992 | #771 | 268 | #477 | 447 |
| 1991 | #705 | 300 | #479 | 424 |
| 1990 | #688 | 308 | #472 | 440 |
| 1989 | #751 | 261 | #487 | 385 |
| 1988 | #809 | 226 | #501 | 333 |
| 1987 | #707 | 258 | #512 | 308 |
| 1986 | #661 | 280 | #525 | 286 |
| 1985 | #963 | 160 | #519 | 283 |
| 1984 | #1,103 | 125 | #529 | 263 |
| 1983 | #1,434 | 81 | #545 | 237 |
| 1982 | #1,703 | 66 | #524 | 265 |
| 1981 | #1,734 | 65 | #550 | 237 |
| 1980 | #1,657 | 69 | #545 | 249 |
| 1979 | #1,461 | 82 | #455 | 318 |
| 1978 | #1,633 | 65 | #510 | 256 |
| 1977 | #1,637 | 64 | #603 | 196 |
| 1976 | #1,482 | 70 | #577 | 198 |
| 1975 | #1,527 | 66 | #633 | 163 |
| 1974 | #1,165 | 97 | #641 | 158 |
| 1973 | #1,109 | 101 | #753 | 113 |
| 1972 | #1,111 | 100 | #732 | 118 |
| 1971 | #1,103 | 108 | #707 | 136 |
| 1970 | #2,307 | 33 | #910 | 77 |
| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 | #920 | 68 |
| 1968 | — | #1,026 | 52 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,215 | 38 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,282 | 35 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,094 | 46 | |
| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 | #1,096 | 48 |
| 1963 | — | #1,318 | 35 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,387 | 32 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,496 | 29 | |
| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 | #1,619 | 25 |
| 1959 | — | #1,588 | 25 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,896 | 18 | |
| 1957 | — | #2,093 | 15 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,091 | 15 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,902 | 17 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,706 | 20 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,958 | 16 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,856 | 17 | |
| 1951 | — | #2,662 | 9 | |
| 1950 | — | #2,019 | 14 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,802 | 8 | |
| 1948 | — | #3,668 | 5 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,370 | 6 | |
| 1946 | — | #3,525 | 5 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,743 | 7 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,195 | 11 | |
| 1943 | — | #2,732 | 8 | |
| 1942 | — | — | ||
| 1941 | — | #2,872 | 7 | |
| 1940 | — | #2,671 | 8 | |
| 1939 | — | #3,113 | 6 | |
| 1938 | — | #2,868 | 7 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,680 | 8 | |
| 1936 | — | #3,549 | 5 | |
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| 1934 | — | #3,679 | 5 | |
| 1933 | — | #3,268 | 6 | |
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| 1931 | — | #3,390 | 6 | |
| 1930 | — | #3,289 | 7 | |
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| 1928 | — | #3,697 | 6 | |
| 1927 | — | #3,451 | 7 | |
| 1926 | — | #4,201 | 5 | |
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| 1924 | — | #4,347 | 5 | |
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| 1914 | — | #3,264 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ali! It came in at #3,264, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1914–1926, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Ali is popular in 1962
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#832 · 1 in 29,134
Best ever in a state: #50 in Michigan, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #832 | 6 | 1 in 29,134 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Ali
- 17 spots since 2024 (#323 → #306)
- 18 spots since 2020 (#324 → #306)
- 19 spots since 2015 (#325 → #306)
- Biggest jump: 203 spots in 1971 (#910 → #707)
- Biggest drop: 90 spots in 1980 (#455 → #545)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 2022 at #301 (1,124 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 57 yrs · run 1969–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,531 boys born in 2025 were named Ali (0.07%)
- Its best rank, #301 in 2022, was only 1 in 1,553 (0.06%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 28.7% of all boys named Ali (9,865) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #3,264 (1914) | #3,264 |
| 1920s | 23 | #3,451 (1927) | #3,924 |
| 1930s | 50 | #2,680 (1937) | #3,230 |
| 1940s | 65 | #2,195 (1944) | #2,953 |
| 1950s | 166 | #1,588 (1959) | #1,977 |
| 1960s | 408 | #920 (1969) | #1,245 |
| 1970s | 1,733 | #455 (1979) | #652 |
| 1980s | 2,846 | #487 (1989) | #524 |
| 1990s | 5,140 | #391 (1999) | #441 |
| 2000s | 7,735 | #319 (2002) | #369 |
| 2010s | 9,865 | #310 (2017) | #335 |
| 2020s | 6,347 | #301 (2022) | #317 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ali in 1962
Top boys' names in 1962
More about 1962
boys
2,068,772 boys got a published name in 1962; 1 in 64,649 of them was named Ali, which outranked 70.0% of the 4,631 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,367Skipper33
- #1,367Theodis33
- #1,367Theresa33
- #1,387Ali32
- #1,387Bubba32
- #1,387Burnell32
- #1,387Cedrick32
- #1,403Caesar31
- #1,403Christine31
- #1,403Chucky31
Tied with 15 names at #1,387; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.