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ali Name Meaning and History

Muslim (widespread throughout the Muslim world): from the Arabic personal name ?Ali ‘high’, ‘lofty’, ‘sublime’. Al-?Ali ‘the All-High’ is an attribute of Allah. Abdul-?Ali means ‘servant of the All-High’. ?Ali ibn Abi ?Talib (c. 600–661), the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, was the fourth and last of the ‘rightly guided’ khalifs (ruled 656–61) and the first imam of the Shiite Muslims. His assassination led to the appearance of the Shiite sect.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of ali Families in the US in 1920
Number of ali families
 22-42
 8-21		 1-7
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looking for decendants of William Ali who died in 1912 Sara Ali 2
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