Ali
84,529 people in the United States were counted with the surname Ali in the 2020 census, making it the 366th most common in the country. That is about one person in 3,536.
By the numbers
- People
- 84,529
- Rank
- 366th
- How common
- 1 in 3,536
- Per 100,000
- 28.3
Where the name comes from
Origin Arabic
From Arabic عَلِيّ, from the Arabic root.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Ali described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Ali
- Muhammad Ali (1942–2016)American boxer
- Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (1936–2019)Tunisian politician
- Muhammad Ali (1769–1849)Wali of Egypt and Sudan
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali (born 1969)Dutch-American political activist and author
- Mahershala Ali (born 1974)American actor
- Tariq Ali (born 1943)British political activist, writer, and historian
- Hussein bin Ali (1853–1931)Sharif and Emir of Mecca, then King of Hejaz and Sharifian Caliph
- Laila Ali (born 1977)American television personality and retired professional boxer
People named Ali with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Ali
Also a first name
Ali has been given to 44,888 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 2022. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.