Primarily a boy's name · Unisex — 11% girls / 89% boys
Origin: EnglishIn Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Elliot yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Elliot, single T, hit records on both measures in 2022 and now records 2,370 births at rank 150, up 34% over ten years. It runs about a hundred and fifty places ahead of its two-T twin while growing slightly slower, so the gap between the spellings is narrowing. Present since 1880, 62,934 births total. Elliot Page, born 1987, is the most prominent current bearer; Alex Salmond, born 1954, and the internet pioneer Bob Kahn carry it as a middle name. Having both spellings land inside a single twenty-five-name slice is the clearest possible demonstration of a problem that runs through this whole dataset: SSA counts strings, not names, and parents choosing between Elliot and Elliott are choosing the same name twice.
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Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 7 | #768 |
| 1884 | 6 | #892 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,010 |
| 1888 | 8 | #769 |
| 1891 | 8 | #723 |
| 1892 | 10 | #704 |
| 1894 | 7 | #888 |
| 1895 | 7 | #910 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,144 |
| 1898 | 12 | #644 |
| 1899 | 13 | #558 |
| 1900 | 9 | #924 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,047 |
| 1903 | 7 | #937 |
| 1904 | 9 | #828 |
| 1905 | 10 | #803 |
| 1906 | 5 | #1,294 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,024 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,105 |
| 1910 | 17 | #736 |
| 1911 | 17 | #801 |
| 1912 | 16 | #1,193 |
| 1913 | 37 | #783 |
| 1914 | 52 | #725 |
| 1915 | 50 | #869 |
| 1916 | 62 | #783 |
| 1917 | 54 | #866 |
| 1918 | 68 | #791 |
| 1919 | 80 | #696 |
| 1920 | 77 | #747 |
| 1921 | 85 | #710 |
| 1922 | 64 | #856 |
| 1923 | 89 | #683 |
| 1924 | 118 | #585 |
| 1925 | 77 | #749 |
| 1926 | 90 | #665 |
| 1927 | 95 | #651 |
| 1928 | 81 | #704 |
| 1929 | 61 | #839 |
| 1930 | 74 | #740 |
| 1931 | 65 | #778 |
| 1932 | 81 | #680 |
| 1933 | 98 | #587 |
| 1934 | 79 | #684 |
| 1935 | 63 | #781 |
| 1936 | 81 | #646 |
| 1937 | 89 | #618 |
| 1938 | 82 | #661 |
| 1939 | 89 | #617 |
| 1940 | 89 | #632 |
| 1941 | 117 | #554 |
| 1942 | 130 | #539 |
| 1943 | 147 | #514 |
| 1944 | 127 | #541 |
| 1945 | 157 | #479 |
| 1946 | 190 | #463 |
| 1947 | 229 | #442 |
| 1948 | 260 | #416 |
| 1949 | 195 | #471 |
| 1950 | 194 | #478 |
| 1951 | 212 | #467 |
| 1952 | 209 | #487 |
| 1953 | 153 | #582 |
| 1954 | 161 | #584 |
| 1955 | 138 | #633 |
| 1956 | 142 | #636 |
| 1957 | 142 | #644 |
| 1958 | 136 | #660 |
| 1959 | 119 | #707 |
| 1960 | 156 | #624 |
| 1961 | 189 | #575 |
| 1962 | 157 | #616 |
| 1963 | 137 | #666 |
| 1964 | 131 | #673 |
| 1965 | 163 | #596 |
| 1966 | 124 | #665 |
| 1967 | 135 | #640 |
| 1968 | 137 | #648 |
| 1969 | 155 | #637 |
| 1970 | 147 | #679 |
| 1971 | 161 | #649 |
| 1972 | 153 | #644 |
| 1973 | 179 | #591 |
| 1974 | 213 | #550 |
| 1975 | 213 | #552 |
| 1976 | 216 | #550 |
| 1977 | 204 | #591 |
| 1978 | 217 | #569 |
| 1979 | 243 | #549 |
| 1980 | 273 | #513 |
| 1981 | 268 | #515 |
| 1982 | 403 | #416 |
| 1983 | 563 | #330 |
| 1984 | 452 | #383 |
| 1985 | 456 | #396 |
| 1986 | 388 | #436 |
| 1987 | 416 | #431 |
| 1988 | 498 | #400 |
| 1989 | 759 | #316 |
| 1990 | 632 | #369 |
| 1991 | 608 | #375 |
| 1992 | 562 | #404 |
| 1993 | 587 | #392 |
| 1994 | 524 | #435 |
| 1995 | 521 | #437 |
| 1996 | 458 | #478 |
| 1997 | 464 | #469 |
| 1998 | 482 | #467 |
| 1999 | 429 | #502 |
| 2000 | 503 | #468 |
| 2001 | 539 | #450 |
| 2002 | 569 | #437 |
| 2003 | 612 | #421 |
| 2004 | 666 | #396 |
| 2005 | 750 | #386 |
| 2006 | 812 | #369 |
| 2007 | 883 | #357 |
| 2008 | 1,004 | #328 |
| 2009 | 1,111 | #297 |
| 2010 | 1,080 | #301 |
| 2011 | 1,287 | #272 |
| 2012 | 1,502 | #241 |
| 2013 | 1,503 | #241 |
| 2014 | 1,772 | #216 |
| 2015 | 1,912 | #208 |
| 2016 | 2,242 | #180 |
| 2017 | 2,435 | #161 |
| 2018 | 2,375 | #162 |
| 2019 | 2,251 | #171 |
| 2020 | 2,318 | #164 |
| 2021 | 2,414 | #159 |
| 2022 | 2,532 | #150 |
| 2023 | 2,066 | #178 |
| 2024 | 2,370 | #150 |
