Aliyah

Aliyah comes from the Hebrew aliyah — ascent, going up — the word used for the honor of being called to read Torah, and for the act of immigrating to Israel. In Arabic, the cognate 'aliyah means exalted, high, sublime. The name crossed into wide American use in the 1990s, boosted significantly by the R&B singer Aaliyah, whose spelling remains the more famous variant. This slimmer version entered the U.S. top 200 in the mid-2000s and has held there comfortably. Three syllables that rise and settle like the word itself. A name with altitude — devotional, musical, genuinely global.