Allî
surname · Latin script
Allî is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In Guyana it is the 29th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Most likely onomatopoeic.
- GYGuyana1 in 447(measured from records)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 2.6K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 335 (measured from records)
- 1 in 447 (inferred from the name graph)
≈58,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Alli in US United States, NG Nigeria, GY Guyana and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Most likely onomatopoeic.
Cited for this meaning 2
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Allî is found
(measured from records)Allî counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #464 | ≈58,000 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Alli | 86 |
| TZ Tanzania | #583 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Alli | 20 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Alli | 46 |
| US United States | — | 1,931 | 1 in 172K | 4.6K | Alli | 335 |
| GY Guyana | #29 | 1,679 | 1 in 447 | 1.7K | Alli | 12 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Alli | 23 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Allî mean, and where does it come from?
- Most likely onomatopoeic. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Allî?
- Mondonomo estimates about 58 thousand people named Allî in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alli. After it come Tanzania, South Africa, United States and Guyana; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Allî most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Allî is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 447 people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Allî?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,931 people named Allî in 2010, about 1 in 172 thousand residents.
- How common is Allî compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Allî is the 464th most common surname of 346,007 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Allî?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/all%C3%AEThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Allî” — the 464th most common surname in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.