The first name Elliott is an English variant of the name Elijah. This is of Hebrew origin and means ‘My God is Yahweh’.
Elliott is a first name for boys, occasionally also given to girls.
The name Elliott 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, Elliott ranks 197. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 11 were named Elliott. In the entire USA, approximately 53,115 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Elliott. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
The first name Elliott is an English variant of the name Elijah. This is of Hebrew origin and means ‘My God is Yahweh’.
Elliott is a... theophoric name. This means that it includes a reference to a deity or a divine being.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Elliott annualy. This means that there have been boys named Elliott who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Elliott have consistently been special. Since 2000, however, the name has experienced a certain popularity: in 2020, it holds its present record of #123 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Elliott was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Elliott has never been ranked higher than #123. In 2021, he rivaled the 131 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 2,811 boys named Elliott were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1991, when possibly the parents of the now very young Elliott were born, there have been 571 newborns who received this name.
The name Elliott may not be in the top rankings of the most popular boys’ names, but it is one of the few male given names, along with only 385 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Elliott is apparently especially popular in South Carolina. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular men’s names here either, one in 1,612 men in South Carolina is called Elliott. In total, that’s 1,426 people who feel addressed when the name Elliott is shouted loudly across South Carolina and who ensure that their name makes it to #284 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common male names in this nice state. If you asked all people in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Elliott as the answer a total of 53,115 times. This places Elliott at #442 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular male names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living people across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Elliott as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
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 seven letters, the name Elliott has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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 Elliott 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 Elliott, you can simply say:
Elephant
Lion
Lion
Igloo
Orange
Tiger
Tiger
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Elliott
Elliott
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
E
L
L
I
O
T
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
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. Elliott sounds like this:
