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Alli

Gender
Girl
Say it
AL-ee
Origin
Germanic
US rank, 2025
#6,324 for girls

Alli is a girls' name of Germanic origin. In 2025 it ranked 6,324th for girls in the US (18 babies).

Where does Alli come from?

Germanic: spelling of Allie; pet form of Alice, Alison and other names beginning with Al

Meaning borrowed from Allie.

Is Alli a girl's or a boy's name?

Alli is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 18 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Alli in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2012, with 4 girls.

1997Busiest: 4 in 20122022
Alli in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20221#7,487
20211#7,491
20200–
20190–
20180–
20170–
20161#7,664
20150–
20140–
20130–
20124#5,058
20111#7,717
20101#7,520
20091#7,377
20082#7,302
20070–
20060–
20051#6,340
20040–
20030–
20020–
20010–
20000–
19993#4,041
19981#5,152
19971#5,110

How popular is Alli in the US?

Rank in 2025
6,324th among girls
Babies in 2025
18 about 1 in 89,000 girls
Five-year trend
Falling down 44% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 18 girls in the US were named Alli, making it the 6,324th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,606th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 205 girls. It first appears in the records in 1916.

2025 had fewer girls named Alli than any year since 1984.

Half of all the girls named Alli in the US since 1880 were born between 1999 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 652 girls in the US were given Alli or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #486, up from #6,324 for this spelling alone.

1916Busiest: 205 in 20112025
Alli in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202518#6,324
202427#4,890
202323#5,386
202232#4,376
202130#4,503
202041#3,606
201943#3,551
201837#3,917
201744#3,478
201660#2,829
201589#2,138
2014103#1,940
2013136#1,576
2012168#1,384
2011205#1,177
2010178#1,317
2009166#1,414
2008178#1,359
2007163#1,445
2006161#1,403
2005168#1,314
2004167#1,277
2003133#1,465
2002128#1,482
2001104#1,723
2000138#1,354
1999118#1,459
1998136#1,304
1997113#1,454
199678#1,862
199561#2,184
199476#1,857
199383#1,759
199264#2,100
199173#1,907
199071#1,934
198950#2,333
198833#3,034
198729#3,166
198642#2,383
198520#3,982
19847#8,149
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19820–
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19800–
19790–
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19490–
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19450–
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19410–
19400–
19390–
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19360–
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19340–
19330–
19320–
19310–
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19290–
19280–
19270–
19260–
19250–
19240–
19230–
19220–
19210–
19200–
19190–
19180–
19176#4,081
19165#4,415

Names like Alli

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Alli

Names related to Alli

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Alli: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/alli, updated 20 October 2026.