# Elliott (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/elliott/  
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 | Hebrew |
| Meaning | “my god is yahweh” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈɛliːət/, 3 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Eliot, Elliot, Eliott |
| US babies named this | 70,719 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 62,551 / 8,168 (12% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 17,508, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

English surname derived from a Middle English diminutive of Elie, Old French form of Elias or Elijah, meaning "my God is Yahweh". As a Scottish surname it may also represent Gaelic Elloch from a word meaning a dam or bank.

## What it means

Elliott is grouped under god.

## 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 | 202 | 1,190 |
| 2012 | 236 | 1,065 |
| 2013 | 283 | 903 |
| 2014 | 333 | 832 |
| 2015 | 426 | 672 |
| 2016 | 472 | 634 |
| 2017 | 582 | 532 |
| 2018 | 584 | 538 |
| 2019 | 673 | 464 |
| 2020 | 631 | 486 |
| 2021 | 550 | 557 |
| 2022 | 472 | 625 |
| 2023 | 446 | 659 |
| 2024 | 488 | 612 |
| 2025 | 489 | 599 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,069 | 305 |
| 2012 | 1,266 | 277 |
| 2013 | 1,480 | 244 |
| 2014 | 1,595 | 233 |
| 2015 | 1,875 | 212 |
| 2016 | 2,094 | 192 |
| 2017 | 2,438 | 160 |
| 2018 | 2,308 | 168 |
| 2019 | 2,453 | 161 |
| 2020 | 2,365 | 158 |
| 2021 | 2,278 | 169 |
| 2022 | 2,233 | 168 |
| 2023 | 2,164 | 168 |
| 2024 | 2,224 | 163 |
| 2025 | 2,287 | 160 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3 | 5,707 |
| 2011 | 7 | 3,185 |
| 2012 | 8 | 2,969 |
| 2013 | 6 | 3,536 |
| 2014 | 8 | 2,862 |
| 2015 | 5 | 4,103 |
| 2016 | 6 | 3,609 |
| 2017 | 8 | 2,925 |
| 2018 | 14 | 1,977 |
| 2019 | 5 | 4,001 |
| 2020 | 6 | 3,447 |
| 2021 | 10 | 2,499 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3,970 |
| 2023 | 5 | 4,056 |
| 2025 | 12 | 2,278 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 601 | 107 |
| 2012 | 672 | 95 |
| 2013 | 722 | 84 |
| 2014 | 914 | 72 |
| 2015 | 938 | 71 |
| 2016 | 892 | 74 |
| 2017 | 834 | 80 |
| 2018 | 728 | 86 |
| 2019 | 728 | 83 |
| 2020 | 647 | 87 |
| 2021 | 564 | 107 |
| 2022 | 531 | 103 |
| 2023 | 443 | 120 |
| 2024 | 441 | 121 |
| 2025 | 418 | 121 |

## People named Elliott

- Elliott Gould, American actor (born 1938)
- Elliott Smith, American musician (1969–2003)
- Elliott Carter, American composer (1908-2012)
- Elliott Erwitt, French-born American advertising and documentary photographer (1928-2023)
- Elliott Coues, American ornithologist (1842–1899)
- Elliott Nugent, American actor, playwright, writer, and film director (1896-1980)
- Elliott Bennett, English association football player
- Elliott H. Lieb, American mathematical physicist and professor of mathematics and physics at Princeton Univ
- Elliott Reid, American film and television actor (1920-2013)
- Elliott Dexter, American actor (1970–1941)
- Elliott Murphy, American singer-songwriter
- Elliott Ward, English footballer (born 1985)

## 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.