# Elliot (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/elliot/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈɛliət/, 3 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Elliott, Eliott, Eliot |
| US babies named this | 65,600 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 58,592 / 7,008 (11% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 24,177, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 298 | 879 |
| 2012 | 310 | 860 |
| 2013 | 310 | 845 |
| 2014 | 367 | 762 |
| 2015 | 450 | 634 |
| 2016 | 474 | 632 |
| 2017 | 495 | 614 |
| 2018 | 471 | 633 |
| 2019 | 511 | 593 |
| 2020 | 511 | 574 |
| 2021 | 369 | 772 |
| 2022 | 360 | 788 |
| 2023 | 299 | 894 |
| 2024 | 279 | 945 |
| 2025 | 241 | 1,035 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,287 | 272 |
| 2012 | 1,502 | 241 |
| 2013 | 1,503 | 241 |
| 2014 | 1,772 | 216 |
| 2015 | 1,912 | 208 |
| 2016 | 2,242 | 180 |
| 2017 | 2,437 | 161 |
| 2018 | 2,375 | 162 |
| 2019 | 2,253 | 171 |
| 2020 | 2,319 | 164 |
| 2021 | 2,416 | 159 |
| 2022 | 2,532 | 150 |
| 2023 | 2,066 | 178 |
| 2024 | 2,376 | 150 |
| 2025 | 2,417 | 151 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 10 | 2,326 |
| 2010 | 9 | 2,589 |
| 2011 | 11 | 2,275 |
| 2012 | 13 | 2,095 |
| 2014 | 12 | 2,203 |
| 2015 | 7 | 3,252 |
| 2016 | 9 | 2,757 |
| 2017 | 13 | 2,090 |
| 2018 | 16 | 1,788 |
| 2019 | 7 | 3,151 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,899 |
| 2021 | 9 | 2,711 |
| 2023 | 8 | 2,927 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3,695 |
| 2025 | 5 | 4,201 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 755 | 85 |
| 2012 | 876 | 75 |
| 2013 | 829 | 76 |
| 2014 | 780 | 83 |
| 2015 | 926 | 73 |
| 2016 | 999 | 66 |
| 2017 | 921 | 69 |
| 2018 | 945 | 68 |
| 2019 | 825 | 71 |
| 2020 | 693 | 83 |
| 2021 | 664 | 89 |
| 2022 | 678 | 83 |
| 2023 | 568 | 94 |
| 2024 | 560 | 98 |
| 2025 | 544 | 94 |

## People named Elliot

- Elliot Page, Canadian actor
- Elliot Anderson, English footballer (born 2002)
- Elliot Goldenthal, American composer
- Elliot Richardson, American lawyer and politician (1920-1999)
- Elliot See, American test pilot and NASA astronaut (1927-1966)
- Grafton Elliot Smith, Australian anatomist (1871–1937)
- Elliot Rodger, American perpetratrator of the 2014 Isla Vista killings (1991–2014); popularizer of the in
- Elliot Knight, British actor
- Elliot Aronson, American psychologist, psychology teacher
- Elliot Grandin, French footballer (born 1987)
- Elliot Cowan, British actor
- Elliot Lee, English association football player (born 1994)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.