Eliot
given name · Latin script
Meaning: diminutive of Elias from Old French Élie and -ot; first attested Heliot de Slohebi 12th DC
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛʎiɔt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Eliot is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 7.3Kas Elliot(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 13K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 34K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Eliot itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 386 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
45,706 named Elliot, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
diminutive of Elias from Old French Élie and -ot; first attested Heliot de Slohebi 12th DC
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Eliot, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Eliot counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 45,706as Elliot | 1 in 7.3K | 136K | Eliot | 386 |
| SE Sweden | 12,541as Elliot | 1 in 814 | 13K | Eliot | 19 |
| FR France | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 29K | Eliot | 7 |
| DK Denmark | 3,950as Elliot | 1 in 1.5K | 4K | — | 2 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Eliot | 22 |
| FI Finland | 1,581as Elliot | 1 in 3.5K | 1.7K | — | 7 |
| NO Norway | 1,088as Elliot | 1 in 5K | 3.9K | — | 8 |
45,706 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling elliot. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Eliot is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, An English and Scottish surname, variant of Elliott.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, US-born British poet (Nobel 1948);
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Evans), English novelist; T. S.
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, George {pseudonym of Mary Ann
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Eliot Nessb. 1903USAmerican Prohibition agent (1903-1957)
- Eliot Danielb. 1908USAmerican composer (1908-1997)
- Michael Howardb. 1922GBnot in their usual nameEnglish military historian (1922–2019)
- Harold Varmusb. 1939USnot in their usual nameAmerican scientist
- John Eliot Gardinerb. 1943GBEnglish conductor
- Eliot Engelb. 1947USAmerican politician (1947 – 2026)
- Alvin E. Rothb. 1951USnot in their usual nameAmerican economist, professor
- Eliot A. Cohenb. 1956USAmerican neoconservative military historian
- Eliot Spitzerb. 1959US54th Governor of New York from 2007 to 2008
- Eliot Sumnerb. 1990GBBritish musician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 80 sources across 42 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 12K | #210 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6.4K | #3,139 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 570 | #3,139 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 455 | #2,964 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 330 | #1,353 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 328 | #3,333 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 282 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 270 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 130 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 116 | #1,297 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 35 | #9,060 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 19 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Eliot?
- In the etymology graph, Elijah is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Eliot a male or female name?
- Eliot is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Eliot mean, and where does it come from?
- diminutive of Elias from Old French Élie and -ot; first attested Heliot de Slohebi 12th DC Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Eliot?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛʎiɔt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Eliot have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 46 thousand people named Elliot, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Eliot?
- In the United States, the national register counted 45,706 people named Elliot in 2020, about 1 in 7.3 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Eliot?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eliotThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Eliot”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.