Alliyah

Where Alliyah comes from

The dictionaries list Alliyah as a given name — a female given name from Hebrew borrowed from Arabic; a variant of the name Aliyah or Aaliyah — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 3 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1994
    First appearance
    #1,608 among girls, 94 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1995
    Peak, #1,169
    147 babies named Alliyah — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2014
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,497.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew borrowed from Arabic; a variant of the name Aliyah or Aaliyah.
Namesakes

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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.