Elliott
Elliott reached its high-water mark in 2019 at number 161, and has been recorded 70,719 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 160th. About 62,000 Elliotts are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Elliott boys named Elliott
Girls and boys called Elliott
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 8,168 girls and 62,551 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 489 to 2,287.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 130 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 70,719
- Estimated living today
- 62,000
- Median age today
- 11
- Peak year
- 2019
- Best rank
- 161st
- Rank in 2025
- 160th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 8,168 / 62,551
How old the living Elliotts are
born that year still alive today
Of the 70,719 babies given the name since 1880, about 62,000 are alive — 87 in every hundred. Roughly 40,000 of them are children and 3,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
English surname derived from a Middle English diminutive of Elie, Old French form of Elias or Elijah, meaning "my God is Yahweh". As a Scottish surname it may also represent Gaelic Elloch from a word meaning a dam or bank.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Elliotts
- Elliott Gould (born 1938)American actor
- Elliott Smith (1969–2003)American musician
- Elliott Erwitt (1928–2023)French-born American advertising and documentary photographer
- Elliott Carter (1908–2012)American composer
- Elliott Coues (1842–1899)American ornithologist
- Elliott Belgrave (born 1931)Governor-General of Barbados
- Elliott Nugent (1896–1980)American actor, playwright, writer, and film director
- Elliott Abrams (born 1948)politician
People named Elliott with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Elliott is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Elliott is most concentrated in Washington (2.1×), South Carolina (1.9×), Oregon (1.7×), Colorado (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2019
The most popular boys’ names the year Elliott peaked:
Elliott elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Elliott | 17,382 | 71st |
| France boys | Elliott +1 spelling | 2,795 | 450th |
| Scotland boys | Elliott | 659 | 130th |
| Ireland boys | Elliott | 585 | 147th |
| Belgium boys | Elliott | 440 | 322nd |
| Northern Ireland boys | Elliott | 255 | 114th |
| Switzerland boys | Elliott | 166 | 501st |
| England and Wales girls | Elliott | 126 | 1,977th |
| France girls | Elliott | 30 | 6,763rd |
| Scotland girls | Elliott | 15 | 783rd |
| Poland boys | Elliott | 13 birth registrations | 449th |
| Ireland girls | Elliott | 3 | 883rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Elliott: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Elliott | 48 | 0.004% | 638th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Elliott | 118 | 0.027% | 161st |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Elliott is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.04% of children were given it – 36 of them.
Elliott: rank by region
In 2025, Elliott was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Elliott | 642 | 8 |
| Wallonia | Elliott | 356 | 7 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Elliott appears in the lists for Province of Flemish Brabant (218th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Elliott by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 580th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Elliott among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Elliott | 53 | 106 |
| Finland girls | Elliott | 5 | 11 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Elliott against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.