Alijah

Where Alijah comes from

The dictionaries list Alijah as a given name — a male given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1987
    First appearance
    #6,951 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2001
    Alijah Martin born
    American basketball player
  3. 2021
    Peak, #408
    762 babies named Alijah — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
Namesakes
  • Alijah Martin · American basketball player, born 2001

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.