Baby name
RISING
🇩🇪 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 Eliah
/eh · LYE · ah/
Meaning
“My God is Yahweh”
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.