Is Ali a male or female name?
Ali is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in Ireland at 58% and male usage in United States at 76%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- male
- Probability
- 91%
- Sample size
- 130,896
- Confidence
- high
Ali by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | male | 76% | 43,681 | ssa |
| France FR | male | 100% | 31,640 | insee |
| Spain ES | male | 100% | 14,723 | ine |
| England and Wales GB | male | 100% | 12,668 | ons |
| Canada CA | male | 94% | 9,898 | statcan |
| Switzerland CH | male | 100% | 8,043 | bfs |
| Norway NO | male | 100% | 4,198 | ssb |
| Poland PL | male | 100% | 2,955 | pesel |
| Austria AT | male | 100% | 1,994 | statat |
| Ireland IE | female | 58% | 1,096 | cso |
Attested in 52 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
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Ali over time
In the United States, 0% of the babies named Ali in the 1950s were girls, against 7.6% in the 2020s. In France, 0% of the babies named Ali in the 1930s were girls, against 0.4% in the 2020s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | — | 0% | 180 | |
| 1940s | — | 0% | 505 | |
| 1950s | 0% | 166 | 0% | 1,670 |
| 1960s | 5% | 430 | 0% | 3,425 |
| 1970s | 31% | 2,519 | 0% | 3,710 |
| 1980s | 36% | 4,434 | 0% | 3,800 |
| 1990s | 36% | 8,061 | 0% | 2,860 |
| 2000s | 24% | 10,159 | 0% | 4,015 |
| 2010s | 19% | 12,124 | 0% | 6,530 |
| 2020s | 8% | 5,645 | 0% | 4,815 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Ali with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Ali&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Ali
Is Ali a male or female name?
Ali is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in Ireland at 58% and male usage in United States at 76%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Ali change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Ali identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.