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elijah Name Meaning and History

Welsh, Jewish, and American: from the personal name Elijah, the usual English transliteration in the King James Bible (Old Testament) of the Hebrew name Eliyahu ‘Jehovah is God’, name of one of the Biblical prophets (see Elias). As a Welsh surname, this is a comparatively late adoption of the personal name, adopted after Old Testament given names became popular among Nonconformists.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The elijah name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the elijah family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of elijah Families in the US in 1920
Number of elijah families
 7-12
 3-6		 1-2
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 17 - Messages: 39
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elijah Wmjchas 10
Merkel Walters here.. MerkelW 0
Herschel L. Elijah, Sr., obituary lindel09 0
Elijah TRICIA 1
Elijah was from Indiana not Wisconsin TRICIA 4
Ohio Elijah's marcellohammon 1
mary blijah/elijah paula hogan 5
Verne Palmer Elijah- WWI Veteran TRICIA 0
Elijah photo's TRICIA 0
Verne Palmer Elijah of Ohio marcellohammon1 0
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