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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Ali

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#306

up +17 places

2025 births

1,116

up +50 births

All-time births

34,383

3% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2022
1,124 births
Best rank
#301
in 2022
First recorded
1914
#3,271 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2005
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
98 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 20221,124#301Peak
  2. 20171,116#310
  3. 20251,116#306
  4. 20181,094#310
  5. 20161,087#322

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #301 in 2022 · peak births 1,124 in 2022

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 77% boys■ 23% girls

34,383 boys · 10,505 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Ali has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.