Alijah

Alijah is an English-language variant spelling of the Hebrew name Elijah, derived from the elements El, meaning God, and Yah, a shortened form of the divine name Yahweh, giving the overall sense of my God is Yahweh. The name is famously borne in the Hebrew Bible by the prophet Elijah, a central figure who challenged the worship of Baal and was said to have ascended to heaven in a fiery chariot. The spelling Alijah reflects a phonetic reshaping that became increasingly common in modern American naming, influenced partly by the popular variant Elijah and similar names beginning with Al-. Related forms include Elijah, Elias, Elia, and Ilyas.