Entry № 458 · Tamil origin

Alli Alli — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AHL-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Tamil
Meaning
"Water lily"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "water lily".

Alli is the water lily that opens on still ponds — and the name of a legendary warrior-queen of Tamil lore. It joins delicacy to strength.

Water lily — a Tamil name.

The name in its native script.

அல்லி
Transliteration
Alli
Pronunciation
/ ˈal.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Alli stands.

Alli does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Allis before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Alli.

The number behind Alli.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Alli reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.