Alioune
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- a-lee-OON
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #12,003 for boys
Alioune is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “exalted”. In 2025 it ranked 12,003rd for boys in the US (5 babies).
What does Alioune mean?
Arabic: West African form of Ali
“exalted”
West African form of Ali, used in Senegal; Alioune Diop founded the journal Présence Africaine.
Is Alioune a girl's or a boy's name?
Alioune is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Alioune in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 12,003rd among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 340,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 5 boys in the US were named Alioune, making it the 12,003rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,016th. Its busiest year was 2003, with 11 boys. It first appears in the records in 1996.
Half of all the boys named Alioune in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
Alioune in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,003 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 5 | #12,232 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,820 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,016 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,613 |
| 2017 | 6 | #10,770 |
| 2016 | 8 | #8,811 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,080 |
| 2014 | 8 | #8,775 |
| 2013 | 8 | #8,784 |
| 2012 | 6 | #10,763 |
| 2011 | 6 | #10,801 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,133 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,013 |
| 2007 | 6 | #10,915 |
| 2006 | 8 | #8,726 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,108 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,137 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,251 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,515 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,202 |
| 1999 | 7 | #7,867 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,472 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,489 |
Names like Alioune
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Alijah, Abdullah, Amiri, Atticus, Ace, Azael, Zaire, Amir, Axel, Adriel, Muhammad, Sincere
More Arabic names
Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Alioune: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/alioune, updated 20 October 2026.