Sherali
An Arabic name meaning "lion of Ali", given only to boys. It stays rare in Poland: most Poles have never met a Sherali.
Sherali Pronunciation
What Sherali means
Where Sherali comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Sherali sets two words side by side. The first, sher, is Persian for lion. The second is Ali, the name of the Prophet Muhammad's cousin and son-in-law, honoured across the Muslim world. Read together they give the short meaning, lion of Ali. The name has no Polish source and no recorded name-day, so a Polish register would file it under its origin abroad.
That origin sits in the Persian-speaking lands rather than in Arabic itself, though the Arabic cultural association holds through the second half. Sherali is carried today across Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Afghanistan.
One bearer is easy to check. Sher Ali Khan ruled as Emir of Afghanistan and died in 1879, his name the same lion-of-Ali compound. For a child on a Polish class register the name would stand out at once, foreign in shape and clear in sense. It means lion of Ali.
How many people are named Sherali
1 in 213462 men in Poland is named Sherali. 100 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3465 among male names.