Dali
Named for the dahlia, the garden flower. Fewer than a hundred women in Poland carry it, and no newborn has been given it this century, so meeting one would stay with you.
Dali Pronunciation
Dali is pronounced DAH-lee (/ˈdali/).
What Dali means
Where Dali comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Dali means the dahlia, the round garden flower Poles call dalia. The flower took its name from Anders Dahl, a Swedish botanist and student of Linnaeus. Spanish botanists named the plant after him in 1791, once specimens reached Madrid from Mexico. So the personal name Dali reaches back, through the flower, to a real man who catalogued plants in the eighteenth century.
The dahlia itself is Mexican. It grew in Aztec gardens long before Europe had a word for it. The name Dali carries none of that history as a literal origin. It borrows the bloom, and the bloom borrows Dahl.
As a first name Dali stays rare in Poland. It has no fixed name-day, no long list of saints, no standard diminutive on record. A teacher reading it from a class register meets a short, open name, two syllables, easy to spell. The meaning sits close to the surface: dahlia, kwiat dalii, a flower that opens late and holds through autumn.
How many people are named Dali
1 in 292777 women in Poland is named Dali. 80 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3961 among female names.