Lijah
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- LY-juh
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #5,044 for boys
Lijah is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “my God is Yahweh”. In 2025 it ranked 5,044th for boys in the US (19 babies).
What does Lijah mean?
Hebrew: short form of Elijah
“my God is Yahweh”
Short form of Elijah, the Hebrew prophet who confronts King Ahab and Queen Jezebel.
Is Lijah a girl's or a boy's name?
Lijah is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 19 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Lijah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,044th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 19 about 1 in 90,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 19 boys in the US were named Lijah, making it the 5,044th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,231st. It first appears in the records in 2000.
2025 had the most boys named Lijah of any year since it first appeared, in 2000.
Half of all the boys named Lijah in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Lijah in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #5,044 |
| 2024 | 15 | #5,899 |
| 2023 | 7 | #9,757 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,256 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,084 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,231 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,099 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,699 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,152 |
| 2015 | 8 | #8,739 |
| 2014 | 15 | #5,729 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 8 | #8,858 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,670 |
| 2010 | 14 | #6,032 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,305 |
| 2008 | 12 | #6,758 |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,361 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,422 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,104 |
Names like Lijah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Musa, Zamir, Asaiah, Alijah, Salem, Zahir, Azaiah, Hamza, Abdullah, Zayd, Azariah, Zayan
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Lijah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lijah, updated 20 October 2026.