Elliot vs Ellwood
American parents have registered 65,600 Elliots since 1880, against 1,979 Ellwoods. Elliot is still ahead, with 2,658 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Elliot Ellwood
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
Of the 141 years in which either name was published, Elliot for 123 years and Ellwood for 18 years. The lead changed hands 20 times.
- 1891–1894 Elliot ahead
- 1895–1897 Ellwood ahead
- 1898–1900 Elliot ahead
- 1906–1908 Ellwood ahead
- 1909–1911 Elliot ahead
- 1915–1918 Ellwood ahead
- 1921–2025 Elliot ahead
14 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Elliot | Ellwood | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 65,600 | 1,979 |
| Most in one year | 2,932 | 82 |
| Babies in 2025 | 2,658 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 61,000 | 310 |
| Median age today | 11 | 74 |
| Peak year | 2022 | 1918 |
| Best rank | 150th boys | 692nd boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 151st | unranked |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1882 |
| Girls / boys | 7,008 / 58,592 | 0 / 1,979 |
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 Ellwoods alive today are over 74; half the Elliots are over 11. That is 63 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Elliot Oregon (1.9×), Alaska (1.9×), Minnesota (1.8×)
- Ellwood Maryland (12.6×), Pennsylvania (12.3×), New York (0.5×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Elliot and Ellwood.