Aliya is the Arabic name 'Aliya, the feminine of Ali, meaning "exalted" or "sublime"; in Hebrew the same word, aliyah, means "ascent" and describes immigration to Israel. The spelling without the double a and final h is the standard transliteration. Aliya ranked number 718 in 2000, peaked at number 598 in 2012 and ranks number 823 in 2025.