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“Variant of Elliott — My God is Yahweh” — Hebrew via Old French origin
Girl's name · #1035 in the US (2025) · 2010s
Elliot reached its best rank, #574, in 2020 and ranked #1035 in 2025. About 7,000 girls have carried it since 1961. About 88% of babies named Elliot in recent years have been boys. Ellie is a short form of Elliot. About 6,000 girls a year are given Ellie as their full name. Together with its spelling variants Elliott (#599) and Elliotte (#2360), Elliot would rank around #379 with about 810 births last year — the newborns split about 60/30/10 across Elliott, Elliot, and Elliotte.
Around the world: about 1 in 5,900 girls in Canada (2024).
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 34 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
Among 417 notable people named Elliot:
Entertainers appear 1.59× more often than among typical names — e.g. Elliot Lee, American singer-songwriter.
Similar names: Elliott · Avah · Ellis · Lillianna · Ellianna · Ellia
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