The first name Elliot is an English variant of the name Elijah. This is of Hebrew origin and means ‘My God is Yahweh’.
Elliot is a first name for boys, occasionally also given to girls.
The name Elliot isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Elliot ranks 180. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 12 were named Elliot. In the entire USA, approximately 52,239 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Elliot. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
The first name Elliot is an English variant of the name Elijah. This is of Hebrew origin and means ‘My God is Yahweh’.
Elliot is a... theophoric name. This means that it includes a reference to a deity or a divine being.
Everyone knows him, everyone loves him and still he’s different from the mainstream: Elliot occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the nearly 50,000 different male first names that occur in the USA, only 386 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Elliot is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Elliot is not one of those names that everyone encounters in his neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, captures attention and is something special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 47,221 men and boys of all generations bear the name Elliot – that is one in 3,535. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in Minnesota, where one in 400 men and boys is called Elliot, while it is particularly rare in Wyoming, where you have to ask an average of 40,349 men for their name to get Elliot as an answer once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 3.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With six letters, the name Elliot is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 3.8%, E as the first letter in boys' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the boys' names that start with an E, Edward is the most common.
If your name is Elliot and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Elliot, you can simply say:
Elephant
Lion
Lion
Igloo
Orange
Tiger
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Elliot
Elliot
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
E
L
L
I
O
T
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
E
L
L
I
O
T
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Elliot sounds like this:
