Yali
Yali is a name with a single cultural origin: Hebrew.
- Hebrew
Meaning & Origin of Yali
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Yali is a name with a single cultural origin: Hebrew.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Hebrew
The Story of Yali
As a girl name
Yali first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a girl name in 2008, with 8 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2022: 12 births, good for #8,535 nationwide. About 49% of every Yali on record arrived during the 2020s, its defining decade. Yali last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 8 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 95 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 2000s to the 2020s.
As a boy name
American parents first put Yali on the record books as a boy name in 2004, with 5 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 2016, when 8 Yalis were born — ranking #8,814 that year. About 48% of every Yali on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. Yali last appeared in the published SSA data in 2022, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 31 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 2000s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
Popularity by State
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About the name Yali
Yali is a unisex baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 2008 and has accumulated 95 births in the dataset. Yali's peak popularity came in 2022 when it ranked #8,535. Use the chart and map above to compare Yali's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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