girls:
87 births since 2008
#5629 (1st percentile)
boys:
31 births since 2004
#4555 (1st percentile)
overall:
118 births since 2004
#7621 (1st percentile)
The name Yali is the #7,621 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 118 recorded births since 2004. This represents the 1.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,629 (1.5% percentile) for all time with 87 births since 2008. For boys, it ranks #4,555 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 31 births since 2004.
Yali first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2004 (2004 for boys and 2008 for girls). Birth data for Yali is available in 14 out of the 20 years between 2004 and 2023 (12 years for girls and 5 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Yali has been given predominantly to girls, with 73.7% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Yali were girls. Interestingly, until around 2008, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 2004 to 2007), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (77.0% girls from 2008 to 2023).
For girls, Yali reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #940) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Yali is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #940 (0.7% percentile) with 7 births per million.
For boys, Yali reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #918) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Yali".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Yali. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.3% confident that Yali is pronounced as YAH-lee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is yuh-LEE, at 14.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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