Calî
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Calî is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Arabic عَلِي (ʕalī).
- ITItaly≈1 in 28K(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 3.5K
- ARArgentina1 in 33K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- Sources
- 91 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
4,813 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Calì in US United States, IT Italy, ES Spain and 1 more and Cali' in BE Belgium.
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)
From Arabic عَلِي (ʕalī).
Sources 4
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Calî 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | 4,813 | 1 in 3.5K | 4.8K | — | 7 |
| US United States | 2,827 | 1 in 118K | 17K | Calì | 84 |
| IT Italy | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 1 | Calì | 91 |
| AR Argentina | 1,358 | 1 in 33K | 1.4K | — | — |
| ES Spain | 249 | 1 in 201K | 249 | Calì | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | 228 | 1 in 37K | 228 | Calì | 8 |
| BE Belgium | 153 | 1 in 77K | 153 | Cali' | 6 |
4,813 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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; INEC — civil registry names; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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 Calî mean, and where does it come from?
- From Arabic عَلِي (ʕalī). Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Calî have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 4.8 thousand people named Calî, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Calî most common?
- Calî is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Calî?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 4,813 people named Calî in 2024, about 1 in 3.5 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cal%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, “Calî”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.