Wali
#2,421 for boys in 2025, 56 births
- Peak · boys
- 1975 · 37 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,248since 1951
Wali over time
Rank among boys' names. Wali has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,421 | 56 |
| 2024 | #3,272 | 36 |
| 2023 | #3,228 | 37 |
| 2022 | #2,830 | 45 |
| 2021 | #3,074 | 39 |
| 2020 | #2,467 | 52 |
| 2019 | #2,556 | 51 |
| 2018 | #2,579 | 49 |
| 2017 | #2,345 | 55 |
| 2016 | #2,134 | 65 |
| 2015 | #2,966 | 39 |
| 2014 | #4,138 | 24 |
| 2013 | #4,981 | 18 |
| 2012 | #5,256 | 17 |
| 2011 | #5,200 | 17 |
| 2010 | #5,741 | 15 |
| 2009 | #6,436 | 13 |
| 2008 | #4,714 | 20 |
| 2007 | #5,661 | 15 |
| 2006 | #4,105 | 23 |
| 2005 | #4,631 | 18 |
| 2004 | #5,813 | 13 |
| 2003 | #4,616 | 17 |
| 2002 | #4,703 | 16 |
| 2001 | #4,676 | 16 |
| 2000 | #6,839 | 9 |
| 1999 | #6,530 | 9 |
| 1998 | #4,197 | 16 |
| 1997 | #5,288 | 11 |
| 1996 | #5,187 | 11 |
| 1995 | #4,791 | 12 |
| 1994 | #5,452 | 10 |
| 1993 | #6,816 | 7 |
| 1992 | #3,459 | 18 |
| 1991 | #5,096 | 10 |
| 1990 | #4,407 | 12 |
| 1989 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #3,203 | 16 |
| 1987 | #2,942 | 17 |
| 1986 | #3,268 | 14 |
| 1985 | #3,805 | 11 |
| 1984 | #2,824 | 16 |
| 1983 | #2,676 | 17 |
| 1982 | #2,518 | 19 |
| 1981 | #3,030 | 14 |
| 1980 | #2,729 | 17 |
| 1979 | #2,568 | 18 |
| 1978 | #1,870 | 27 |
| 1977 | #1,948 | 25 |
| 1976 | #1,502 | 36 |
| 1975 | #1,455 | 37 |
| 1974 | #4,634 | 6 |
| 1973 | #2,857 | 12 |
| 1972 | #2,991 | 11 |
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| 1969 | #4,404 | 5 |
| 1968 | #3,673 | 6 |
| 1967 | #3,231 | 7 |
| 1966 | #3,537 | 6 |
| 1965 | #2,780 | 9 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Wali! It came in at #3,714, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1951–1964, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Wali is popular in 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Virginia#800 · 1 in 5,820
- New York#1,581 · 1 in 15,957
- Texas#1,785 · 1 in 21,859
- California#2,515 · 1 in 41,303
Best ever in a state: #376 in New Jersey, 1978.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Virginia | #800 | 7 | 1 in 5,820 |
| New York | #1,581 | 6 | 1 in 15,957 |
| Texas | #1,785 | 8 | 1 in 21,859 |
| California | #2,515 | 5 | 1 in 41,303 |
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See more about Wali
- 851 spots since 2024 (#3,272 → #2,421)
- 46 spots since 2020 (#2,467 → #2,421)
- 545 spots since 2015 (#2,966 → #2,421)
- Debuted 1951
- Peaked 1975 at #1,455 (37 births)
- Births halved by 1979, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 29,196 boys born in 2016 were named Wali (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 30,501 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,455 in 1975, was only 1 in 42,199 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 28.0% of all boys named Wali (350) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #3,714 (1951) | #3,714 |
| 1960s | 33 | #2,780 (1965) | #3,525 |
| 1970s | 172 | #1,455 (1975) | #2,478 |
| 1980s | 147 | #2,518 (1982) | #3,394 |
| 1990s | 116 | #3,459 (1992) | #5,122 |
| 2000s | 160 | #4,105 (2006) | #5,219 |
| 2010s | 350 | #2,134 (2016) | #3,790 |
| 2020s | 265 | #2,421 (2025) | #2,882 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Wali in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 37,064 of them was named Wali, which outranked 81.7% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,546Usman50
- #2,546Willard50
- #2,546Zaedyn50
- #2,579Wali49
- #2,579Aasim49
- #2,579Allister49
- #2,579Arius49
- #2,617Adem48
- #2,617Ayson48
- #2,617Bill48
Tied with 37 names at #2,579; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.