Elliott

What Elliott means

Means “my God is Yahweh”

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

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

How popular is Elliott?

US: Rising: up from #212 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #71 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2020, when 2,365 boys got the name (#158 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 747 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 651 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 677 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 DC (3.96 per 1,000 boys), MT (3.72 per 1,000 boys), AK (3.08 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Elliott is #160 in the US and #121 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 82.4% of US babies named Elliott 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

• Elliot2,417 US · 544 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.

If you like Elliott

Boys

• Clark#377“clergyman; learned man”^*
• Jedidiah#874“beloved of Yahweh”^*
• Jameson#137Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #137 vs #1,093 in 2025
• Royce#499Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #499 vs #1,307 in 2025
• Ellis#243“benevolent, kind”^*
• Jethro#952Editor’s note Up from #1,481 in 2015 to #952 in 2025 in the US

For a sister

• Ariella#174Form of Ariel, meaning “lion of God”^*
• Elsie#123Diminutive of Alison, meaning “of noble kind”^*
• Blakely#191Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #191 vs #1,407 in 2025
• Lena#279“the Large River”^*
• Everleigh#194“wild boar + woodland clearing”^*
• Scarlett#32Editor’s note Down from #22 in 2015 to #32 in 2025 in the US

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