Entry № 431 · Arabic origin

Alia Alia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AH-lee-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Exalted / sublime (iconic Alia Bhatt Padma Shri 2024)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Arabic)

A name that means "exalted / sublime (iconic alia bhatt padma shri 2024)".

Alia is from the Arabic ʿāliya (عالية — exalted, high, sublime) and parallel Hebrew aliyah (עליה — ascent). Princess Alia — Arabic-Hebrew heritage naming.

Exalted / sublime (iconic Alia Bhatt Padma Shri 2024) — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

عالية
Transliteration
ʿĀliya
Pronunciation
/ ˈɑː.li.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Alia stands.

Alia does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Alias before her.

Real people
Alia Bhatt
Iconic Bollywood + Padma Shri 2024 + Gangubai National Award.
born 1993
In fiction
Alia
Arabic-Hebrew for exalted.

Names connected to Alia.

The number behind Alia.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Alia reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.