Alijah is a modern invented name with two possible origins. It could be a variant of Elijah meaning ‘my God is Yahweh’, or a form of Aliyah meaning ‘the high, the noble, the sublime’.
Alijah is a first name for boys, occasionally also given to girls.
The name Alijah isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Alijah ranks 450. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 4 were named Alijah. In the entire USA, approximately 11,262 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Alijah. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
Alijah is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Alijah cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #379 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2021. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Alijah, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Alijah seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Alijah was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
683 babies were named Alijah in 2022 - that's 1 in 248,348 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Alijah ranked 428 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is a very popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 9.0% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter J is more common for boys' names.
With six letters, the name Alijah is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.0% of all boys' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the boys' names that start with an A, Anthony is the most common.
If your name is Alijah and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Alijah, you can simply say:
Apple
Lion
Igloo
Joker
Apple
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Alijah
Alijah
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
L
I
J
A
H
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
L
I
J
A
H
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Alijah sounds like this:
