Variant spelling of Elijah or the Hebrew Eliyah, meaning my God is Yahweh. The variant spelling strips the name to its Semitic core without the anglicized -ijah ending.
Nicknames
eli
Vibe
gentle
How it ages.
Clean and biblical; the simplified spelling feels fresh while the meaning is ancient.
The cultural moment.
Used in the US and Germany as a biblical variant; growing slowly since the 2000s.