Eliot
Eliot reached its high-water mark in 2012 at number 942, and has been recorded 8,465 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,401st. About 7,400 Eliots are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 20.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Eliot boys named Eliot
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 8,465
- Estimated living today
- 7,400
- Median age today
- 20
- Peak year
- 2012
- Best rank
- 942nd
- Rank in 2025
- 1,401st
- First recorded
- 1905
- Girls / boys
- 573 / 7,892
How old the living Eliots are
born that year still alive today
Of the 8,465 babies given the name since 1905, about 7,400 are alive — 87 in every hundred. Roughly 3,400 of them are children and 580 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2005 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
Origin Hebrew
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Eliots
- Alvin Eliot Roth (born 1951)American economist, professor
- Eliot Spitzer (born 1959)54th Governor of New York from 2007 to 2008
- Eliot Vassamillet (born 2000)Belgian singer
- John Eliot Gardiner (born 1943)English conductor
- Eliot Ness (1903–1957)American Prohibition agent
- Eliot Engel (1947–2026)American politician
- Eliot Sumner (born 1990)British musician
- Eliot Higgins (born 1979)British citizen journalist and former blogger
People named Eliot with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Eliot is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Eliot is most concentrated in Massachusetts (4.7×), New York (3.0×), California (1.9×), Maine (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2012
The most popular boys’ names the year Eliot peaked:
Eliot elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Eliot +1 spelling | 13,080 | 99th |
| England and Wales boys | Eliot | 1,078 | 329th |
| Belgium boys | Eliot | 934 | 237th |
| Switzerland boys | Eliot | 593 | 260th |
| Poland boys | Eliot | 45 birth registrations | 448th |
| Ireland boys | Eliot | 19 | 548th |
| Scotland boys | Eliot | 16 | 259th |
| France girls | Eliot | 15 | 4,094th |
| England and Wales girls | Eliot | 9 | 5,581st |
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.
Eliot: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Eliot | 111 | 0.009% | 479th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Eliot | 480 | 0.110% | 65th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Eliot | 2 | 0.003% | 180th |
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, Eliot is most concentrated in Jura, where 0.20% of children were given it – 29 of them.
Eliot: rank by region
In 2025, Eliot was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Eliot | 714 | 7 |
| Wallonia | Eliot | 123 | 23 |
In 2025, Eliot was given 2 times or more in 2 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Eliot | 312 | 2 |
| Śląskie | Eliot | 254 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Eliot appears in the lists for Province of Liège (147th) and Province of Hainaut (153rd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 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.
Eliot by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 7 | 531st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Eliot 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 | Eliot | 157 | 281 |
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.
Where Eliot lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 450 men called Eliot were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmas, Las | Eliot | 26 | 0.045 | 1,735 |
| Huesca | Eliot | 5 | 0.043 | 1,362 |
| Guadalajara | Eliot | 6 | 0.041 | 1,190 |
| Barcelona | Eliot | 105 | 0.036 | 1,448 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Eliot | 18 | 0.034 | 2,227 |
| Granada | Eliot | 14 | 0.030 | 1,416 |
Listed in 23 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 29 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Eliot 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.