Elliot

At the 2020 census, 7,548 Americans bore the surname Elliot — 4,562nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 39,600.

By the numbers

People: 7,548
Rank: 4,562nd
How common: 1 in 39,600
Per 100,000: 2.5

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Elliot described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 74.7%
Black, not Hispanic 14.8%
Hispanic or Latino 4.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Elliot

Cass Elliot (1941–1974)American singer
Launceston Elliot (1874–1930)Scottish weightlifter
Rob Elliot (born 1986)Irish association football player
Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835–1915)American zoologist
Adam Elliot (born 1972)Australian animator and director
James L. Elliot (1943–2011)American astronomer
Charles Elliot (1801–1875)British Royal Navy admiral
Jim Elliot (1926–1956)Martyred Christian missionary to Ecuador

People named Elliot with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Elliot

Also a first name

Elliot has been given to 65,600 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2022. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.