Aliyah

Where Aliyah comes from

Ultimately from Arabic عَالِيَة (ʕāliya).
— Wiktionary's entry for Aliyah
  • Arabic
  • Hebrew
Along the way
  1. 1956
    Aliyah Khalaf Saleh born
    Iraqi humanitarian
  2. 1971
    First appearance
    #8,324 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 2001
    Aliyah Boston born
    American basketball player
  4. 2011
    Peak, #133
    2,301 babies named Aliyah — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Arabic of modern American usage, a variant of Aaliyah.
  • A female given name from Hebrew.
Namesakes
  • Aliyah Khalaf Saleh · Iraqi humanitarian, born 1956
  • Aliyah Boston · American basketball player, born 2001
  • Aliyah Abrams · Guyanese sprinter, born 1997
  • Aliyah Saleem · author and secular activist, born 1989
  • Aliyah O'Brien · Canadian actress, born 1981

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.