#4302024 rank
2021peak year
12,302babies named Alijah since 1880
▲ +21%5-year trend
Alijah popularity over 145 years
⭐ Sweet spot — known but not everywhere · roughly undefined% girls / NaN% boys in 2024
What does Alijah mean?
A modern spelling variant of Elijah, from Hebrew Eliyahu, 'my God is Yahweh', the great prophet of the Hebrew Bible. It rose in the US in the 2010s.
OriginHebrew
Syllables3
Genderboy
Stylemodern, vintage
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Spellings & variants
ElijahEliyah
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