Dali is from the Georgian დალი (Dali) — foundational Svan + Georgian pagan name. A modern American baby name in the broader Georgian-Caucasian heritage aesthetic. Dali is one of the foundational Georgian feminine names — central to traditional pre-Christian Svan + Caucasian Indigenous mythology. Dali is the foundational Georgian-Svan goddess of the hunt + protector of wild animals + mother of foundational Amirani (Georgian Prometheus, foundational chained-titan figure) — central to foundational Svan Indigenous Caucasian mythology + foundational pre-Christian Georgian pagan pantheon. Foundational subject of foundational Svan oral epic + foundational Georgian Pirimze cosmological tradition + foundational Svaneti UNESCO World Heritage Site (1996 — foundational Svan tower-houses + Indigenous Caucasian-Iberian cultural heritage). Foundational Georgian feminine name reflecting Caucasian Indigenous heritage.
Featured throughout Georgian heritage.
Dali 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.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Dali reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.