First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Name origin: Old German
Name meaning: Earnest, vigorous
Name origin: Dutch and North German
Name meaning: from a vernacular form of the Biblical name Elijah (see Elias).
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