Pali
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pali is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India. Recorded meaning: lang.. India.
- INIndia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 80 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
lang.. India
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pali counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 1.2K | Pali | 80 |
| US United States | — | 407 | — | 56 |
| AL Albania | — | 192 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 137 | — | 1 |
| HR Croatia | — | 99 | — | — |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Pali is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In dag, 1. to fill up Comment _ ‘running-spider’, solifuge O payi Naawuni. He died. KO KO see poyu ‘new woman’ : probably a Christian invention (shd. be ‘new(ly married) wife’) ‘like witch, hag’ KO KO palgi suhu ‘make happy’ KO Singular cl. Definition Comment
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
In men, channel, the deeper part of a river; n., depth. I pali ht
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In German, clipping of Palästinenser (“Palestinian”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cbk, scar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pmf, subject oneself to taboos by refraining from the use of or contact with things, the pronunciation of words or the visiting of places
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Janko Palib. 1896ALAlbanian Esperantist
- Pali Miskab. 1931ALAlbanian politician (1931-2009)
- George Palib. 1957USAlbanian artist
- Tibor Pálib. 1959HUresearcher
- Andrei Nikolayevich Palyb. 1971UAnot in their usual nameRussian commander
- Andrei Palyb. 1976RUnot in their usual nameRussian politician
- Bar Palyb. 1982ILnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Pali Vecseiactor
- O'ar Paliactress
- Agnieszka Dombrowska-PaliPLresearcher (ORCID 0000-0003-0785-8977)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 33 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 192 | #1,878 |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2015 | 4 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2017 | 1 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pali mean, and where does it come from?
- lang.. India Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Pali have the most bearers?
- Pali is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled pali.
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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paliThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Pali”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.