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Eliot

#1,403 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

My God is Yahweh, through Elliott

Eliot has been given to 8,465 babies in the U.S. since 1905. In 2025 it ranked #1,403 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 216 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% boys, 7% girls all-time.

Babies named Eliot, 2025

1 in 25,500

Eliot over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Eliot over time

In 2025, Eliot went to 13% girls and 87% boys.

19052025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Eliot: meaning, origin, and history

My God is Yahweh, through Elliott

Hebrew

What Eliot means

Eliot belongs to the name family reached through Eliot → Elliott. Its meaning is “my God is Yahweh”.

Origin, language, and formation

Eliot is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Elliott.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,892 boys were recorded with the name Eliot between 1905 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 216 in 2012; its best national rank was #799 in 1960.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,234 in 2020 to #1,403 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,101 in 2015 to #1,403 in 2025.

In the United States, 573 girls were recorded with the name Eliot between 1987 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 36 in 2018; its best national rank was #4,021 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,054 in 2020 to #6,181 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,167 in 2015 to #6,181 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Eliot?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 25,500
130 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 13,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,403
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
17,677 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eliot sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 17,677 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eliot. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eliots were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eliot was born before 1999 — so the typical Eliot is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
23.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
49.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
7,117
People you could plausibly meet
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2010s — 23.4% of all recorded uses (1,847).

Is Eliot rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−44
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−169
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−302
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.74×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.2%
Peak was 2012 (216)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#799
1960

Spellings of Eliot

Eliot is not the most common spelling — Eli is, with 26.6% against Eliot's 1.4%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Eliot is used — boys

Across 2016–2025, Eliot was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 4,762 boys, against 1 in 13,117 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 50,000).

221 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 4,762
  2. 2Oregon1 in 5,556
  3. 3Ohio1 in 7,692
  4. 4Illinois1 in 8,333
  5. 5California1 in 9,091
  6. 6New York1 in 11,111
  7. 7Texas1 in 12,500
  8. 8Colorado1 in 14,286

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Where Eliot is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Eliot was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,668,796 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Eliot has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Eliot around the world

Where Eliot ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,066
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1991–2008
    #535
    in 2008
  • Ireland
    2004–2024
    #655
    in 2024
  • France
    1956–2025
    #202
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #354
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1967–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Eliot

People whose public names include Eliot, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Eliot in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Eliot. Linked forms have their own page here.

EliothEliottElliotElliott

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Eliot by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,403
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 169
Best rank ever
#799
1960
Peak year
2012
216 that year
First recorded
1905
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,892
Count in 2025
130

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,181
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,127
Best rank ever
#4,021
2018
Peak year
2018
36 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
573
Count in 2025
19

Names similar to Eliot

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ElielEliamElianEliseoElioElishaEliezerEliudElieElihuElijaEliahElighEliottEliabEliyahuEligioElierEliaEliazEliasEliazarEliyahElijha

Names with a curve like Eliot

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Eliot, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AnsonBaronPatricioMarianoKonradMauroSimeonKalvinBlaiseMarcelloThorLeif

Sibling names for Eliot

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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