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Ali (name)

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For Ali ibn Abi Talib, see Ali. For other uses, see Ali (disambiguation).
Ali
Calligraphic seal featuring Caliph Ali's name, on display in the Hagia Sophia
PronunciationArabic: [ˈʕæli]
Persian: [ʔæˈliː]
Turkish: [aˈli]
Urdu: [ʔəˈliː]
GenderUnisex
Language(s)Arabic (source), Amharic, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Bengali, Indonesian, Pashto, Persian, Somali, Swahili, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Urdu, Uzbek, etc.
Origin
Word/nameArabic
Meaningeminent, high, exalted, noble
Region of originArabia
Other names
Variant form(s)Ally, Aly, Alli, Alley, Allie, Aliy, Aliyy, Alee

Ali (/ˈɑːli/ or /ˈæli/; Arabic: علي, romanized: ʿAlī) is a common unisex (originally male) name.

Ali is derived from the Arabic triconsonantal root ʕ-l-w, which literally means "high", "elevated", "champion", ”king of kings”, ”emperor”, and is used as both a given name and surname. Islamic traditional use of the name goes back to the Islamic leader Ali ibn Abi Talib, but the name is also present among some pre-Islamic Arabs (e.g. Banu Hanifa, and some rulers of Saba and Himyar). It is identical in form and meaning to the Hebrew: עֵלִי, Eli, which goes back to the High Priest Eli in the biblical Books of Samuel.

The Ali surname is especially common in Arab countries and the rest of the Muslim world.[1]

Ali is the most common last name in Qatar, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Somalia, Kuwait and Libya.[2] The last name can also be found among the Indian Muslim and Pakistani communities, as it is often associated with the descendants of Ali in these regions.[3]

The name Ali is also used in various other cultures as a given name. Among English speakers it is used as a short form of male or female names starting with "Ali", such as Alice, Alison, Alisha, Alistair, Alexander, or Alexandra. In Old Norse, Áli and Åle are alternative forms of Onela. Ali is a Finnish male given name, derived from Aleksanteri.[4]

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  • Abdulaziz Ali (born 1980), Qatari footballer
  • Ahmed Ali (born 1990), Emirati football player
  • Ahmad Ismail Ali (1917-1974), Commander-in-Chief of Egypt's army
  • Almoez Ali (born 1996), Qatari international footballer of Sudanese descent
  • Awais Ali (born 2005), Pakistani cricketer
  • Hamdi Ali (born 1997), Qatari high jumper
  • Hameen Ali (born 1977), American football player
  • Hyder Ali (1720-1782), the Sultan and de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore in southern India
  • Imtiaz Ali (born 1954), West Indian cricketer
  • Imtiaz Ali (born 1974), Trinidadian cricketer
  • Josh Ali (born 1999), American football player
  • Jusif Ali (born 2000), Finnish footballer
  • Khalid Ali (born 1981), Emirati football defender
  • Laila Ali (born 1977), American television personality and former professional boxer, daughter of Muhammad Ali
  • Meral Yıldız Ali (born 1987), Romanian-Turkish female table tennis player
  • Moeen Ali (born 1987), English cricketer
  • Muhammad Ali (1942–2016; born Cassius Clay), American boxer, activist and philanthropist
  • Mukhtar Ali (born 1997), Saudi Arabian professional footballer
  • Mohamed Ali (born 1992), Indian professional footballer
  • Nur Ali (born 1974), Pakistani-American racing driver
  • Rahaman Ali (born 1943; born Rudolph Arnett Clay, later rechristened to Rudolph Valentino), American boxer, brother of Muhammad Ali
  • Rasheen Ali (born 2001), American football player
  • Veronica Porché Ali, American psychologist and the former wife of boxer Muhammad Ali

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  • Abu Saeed Muhammad Omar Ali (1945–2012), Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and translator
  • Ahmadu Ali (born 1936), Nigerian politician
  • Anwar Ali (born 1974), Pakistani economist
  • Ayaan Hirsi Ali (born 1969), writer and politician
  • Altab Ali (1953-1978), factory garment worker murdered by three teenagers in a racist attack in East London
  • Ayub Ali (1919–1995), Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and educationist
  • Ayub Ali Master (1880–1980), British-Bangladeshi social worker and entrepreneur
  • Azad Ali, IT worker and civil servant for the HM Treasury
  • Azmin Ali (born 1964), Malaysian politician
  • Enam Ali (1960-2022), founder of the British Curry Awards, Spice Business Magazine and Ion TV
  • Hassan Al-Ali (Scouting), former General Secretary of the Kuwait Boy Scouts Association
  • Hasan ibn Ali (625-670), early Islamic Alid political and religious leader
  • Husayn ibn Ali (626-680), early Islamic figure
  • Hussein bin Ali, King of Hejaz (1854-1931), Arab leader from the Banu Qatadah branch of the Banu Hashim clan
  • Idris Ali (politician) (1950–2024), Indian politician
  • Ilias Ali (Bangladeshi politician) (1961-2012), Bangladeshi politician, Organising Secretary of the Bangladesh National Party
  • Abul Aziz Muhammad Ismail Ali (1868–1937), Urdu poet and activist
  • Jobeda Ali (1975–2020), British social entrepreneur, documentary filmmaker and chief executive of Three Sisters Care
  • Kazim Ali (born 1971), American poet, novelist, essayist, and professor
  • Mahbub Ali (born 1961), Bangladeshi politician and Member of Parliament
  • M. A. Yusuff Ali (born 1955), Indian businessman and billionaire
  • Mahmud Ali (statesman) (1919-2006), Indian Freedom Movement leader, statesman
  • Mir Masoom Ali (born 1937), Bangladeshi American statistician, Distinguished Professor and author
  • Mir Maswood Ali (1929-2009), Canadian statistician and mathematician
  • Munsur Ali (born 1978), British film producer, screenwriter and director
  • Mustafa Ali (born 1986), Malaysian politician
  • Muhammad Shamsi Ali (born 1967), Indonesian-American Muslim scholar
  • Siraj Ali (born 1954), British Bangladeshi restaurateur and philanthropist
  • Nasim Ali (born 1969), UK Labour Party politician, councillor and former Mayor of Camden
  • Noble Drew Ali (1886–1929), founder of the Moorish Science Temple of America
  • Ragib Ali (born 1936), Bangladeshi industrialist, pioneer tea-planter, educationalist, philanthropist and banker
  • Rushanara Ali (born 1975), British politician
  • Sabahattin Ali (1907–1948), Turkish novelist and journalist
  • Saeed Abu Ali (born 1955), Palestinian politician and jurist
  • Safiye Ali (1891–1952), Turkish physician
  • Saleem Ali (born 1973), Pakistani-American scholar
  • Salim Ali (1896–1987), Indian ornithologist and naturalist
  • Samina Ali, Indian-American author and activist
  • Shah Muhammad Ibrahim Ali (1872–1931), Bengali poet and Islamic scholar
  • Sonni Ali (died 1492), first king of the West African Songhai empire
  • Syed Mohammad Ali (1928–1993), Bangladeshi journalist, founder of Bangladesh The Daily Star
  • Syed Mohsin Ali (1948–2015), Bangladeshi politician, Minister of Social Welfare
  • Syed Mujtaba Ali (1904–1974), Indo-Bangladeshi author, journalist, travel enthusiast, academician, scholar and linguist
  • Sheikh Razzak Ali (1928–2015), Bangladeshi author, journalist and politician
  • Takis Mehmet Ali (born 1991), German politician
  • Yashar Ali (born 1979), American journalist with Iranian ancestry
  • Zahid Ali (born 1976), Norwegian stand-up comedian
  • Zaynab bint Ali (626–682), eldest daughter of Fatima and Ali ibn Abi Talib
  • Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (1936-2019), 2nd president of Tunisia

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  1. ^ "Here Are Some Of The Most Common Surnames Around The World". thoughtco.
  2. ^ "ALI Surname Meaning, Origin and Family History". babbel.com.
  3. ^ "Ali Surname Origin & History". nomorigine.com.
  4. ^ Kustaa Vilkuna, Marketta Huitu and Pirjo Mikkonen. Etunimet, published in Joka kodin suuri nimikirja. Suuri Suomalainen Kirjakerho, 1990.
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