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The surname Alli

A surname, carried by 1,931 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex A400

Alli: #15,236 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Alli #15,236, 1,931 people Alli: #15,236 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Alli #15,236, 1,931 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Alli is more common than 90.6% of them.

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,931 people named Alli in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 159,889 Americans. That is up 25% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,540.

#15,236
rank among US surnames
1,931
people in 2010
0.7
per 100,000 Americans
+25.4%
change since 2000 (was #17,001)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#15,229Salamon1,933159,724
#15,232Dy1,932159,806
#15,236Alli1,931159,889
#15,238Nayak1,930159,972

Who is named Alli

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

35% of people named Alli identified as Black (not Hispanic), 30% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 24% as white (not Hispanic).

  • Black (not Hispanic) 35%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 30%
  • White (not Hispanic) 24%
  • Two or more races 5.5%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.8%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.8%

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Alli

Alli has the Soundex code A400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A400.

Questions

How common is the surname Alli?
1,931 people in the United States had the surname Alli in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 159,889 Americans. It ranked 15,236th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Alli?
In the 2010 Census, 35% of people named Alli identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 30% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
Is the surname Alli getting more or less common?
More common. 1,540 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,931 in 2010, up 25%.