Elliot

What Elliot means

Variant of Elliott, meaning “my God is Yahweh”

variant of Elliott || English surname derived from a Middle English diminutive of Elie, Old French form of Elias or Elijah, meaning "my God is Yahweh ".

Source: Wiktionary, “Elliot” (revision 94539071) and “Elliott” (revision 88778930), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Elliot?

US: Rising: up from #208 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #73 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2022, when 2,532 boys got the name (#150 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 707 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 500 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 317 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NH (5.77 per 1,000 boys), VT (4.95 per 1,000 boys), ME (4.42 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Elliot is #151 in the US and #94 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 90.9% of US babies named Elliot were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Elliott2,287 US · 418 E&W
• Eliot130 US · 28 E&W
• Eliott60 US · 12 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Elliott
• Eliott
• Eliot

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Elliot

Boys

• Jedidiah#874“beloved of Yahweh”^*
• Jethro#952Editor’s note Up from #1,481 in 2015 to #952 in 2025 in the US
• Levi#12Editor’s note Up from #42 in 2015 to #12 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 180 US boys in the 2025 records
• Adriel#84“flock of God”^*
• Samson#477Editor’s note Up from #618 in 2015 to #477 in 2025 in the US
• Matthias#372From Biblical Hebrew, meaning “gift of Yahweh”^*

For a sister

• Ariella#174Form of Ariel, meaning “lion of God”^*
• Elsie#123Diminutive of Alison, meaning “of noble kind”^*
• Lena#279“the Large River”^*
• Ari#614“lion”^*
• Zara#212“flower”^*
• Delilah#51Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #115 in 2015, #51 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Elliot’s. Rank is US 2025.