Boy · Arabic · Muslim
Aliyan
علیانSay it ah-lee-YAAN
- Meaning today
- Exalted, of high status
- In the dictionaries
- No dictionary meaning confirmed for the name itself
- Say it
- ah-lee-YAAN
- Written
- علیان
- Other spellings
- Aliyaan, Alyan
Aliyan
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Aliyan meaning
Aliyan (علیان) is a Muslim boy's name of Arabic origin.
Meaning today
Exalted, of high status
In the dictionaries
We haven't confirmed a dictionary meaning for the name itself. The meaning above is how families commonly use it.
Aliyan (علیان) is a modern boy's name used by Indian Muslim families, and name lists explain it as "exalted" or "of high status". The idea comes from the Arabic root ʿ-l-w, "to be high", which gives the name Ali and the word ʿalāʾ, "eminence, nobility", recorded in Lane's lexicon. We could not find the form ʿalyān itself in Lane or in the Persian and Urdu dictionaries, so the meaning rests on the root and on usage rather than on a dictionary entry. It sits naturally in the family of names around Ali.
References: Lane, Arabic–English Lexicon, ʿalāʾ (root ʿ-l-w), Book I p. 2146
Spellings
Aliyan · Aliyaan · Alyan