Ali Family History
Ali Name Meaning
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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Name Distribution of Ali Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Ali families
 22 - 42  8 - 21 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Ali families
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9 - 15 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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