Humanverse

Elliot vs Elliotte

American parents have registered 65,600 Elliots since 1880, against 1,092 Elliottes. Elliot is still ahead, with 2,658 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Elliot against Elliotte, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Elliot Elliotte

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Elliot has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1922, when Elliot had 64 and Elliotte had 9.

Side by side

  Elliot Elliotte
Total US births 65,6001,092
Most in one year 2,932108
Babies in 2025 2,65877
Estimated living today 61,0001,100
Median age today 117
Peak year 20222024
Best rank 150th boys1,942nd girls
Rank in 2025 151st2,354th
First recorded 18801922
Girls / boys 7,008 / 58,5921,029 / 63

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Elliots alive today are over 11; half the Elliottes are over 7. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Elliot Elliotte
England and Wales 24,17726

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Elliot and Elliotte.