Aliah is a streamlined spelling of Aliyah or Aaliyah, an Arabic name that means "exalted" or "sublime" and is the feminine form of Ali; in Hebrew the same word means ascent and describes immigration to Israel. The many spellings all took off in America after the singer Aaliyah in the 1990s. Aliah peaked at number 1007 in 2015, just short of the top 1000, and ranks 1192 in 2025.