Eliot
Eliot is given to both girls and boys: 19 girls and 130 boys were given it in 2025 (#6,181 among girls’ names and #1,403 among boys’, #2,708 among all names counting both); 8,465 Americans have been recorded with it since 1905 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,370 Americans named Eliot and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 11 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eliot by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Eliot mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Eliot is “a male given name from Hebrew, variant of Elliott.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Eliot?
#1,403 among boys’ names, 2025
Eliot fell from #1,101 in 2015 to #1,403 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 91.8 to 76.1 per million.
239 babies in 2012, the peak
Eliot peaked in 2012, when 239 babies were given it (216 boys, #943 among boys’ names). The 149 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 62% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 130 | #1,403 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 139 | #1,359 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 138 | #1,360 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 142 | #1,323 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 152 | #1,257 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 152 | #1,234 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 160 | #1,195 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 183 | #1,080 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 173 | #1,114 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 163 | #1,173 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (118)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 176 | #1,101 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 192 | #1,043 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 199 | #995 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 216 | #943 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 178 | #1,060 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 207 | #960 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 171 | #1,087 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 142 | #1,229 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 136 | #1,284 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 128 | #1,295 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 129 | #1,226 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 136 | #1,153 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 119 | #1,226 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 106 | #1,282 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 100 | #1,304 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 76 | #1,563 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 92 | #1,309 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 78 | #1,449 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 88 | #1,297 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 83 | #1,314 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 65 | #1,475 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 56 | #1,628 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 79 | #1,274 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 90 | #1,163 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 94 | #1,128 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 82 | #1,202 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 96 | #1,063 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 68 | #1,240 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 70 | #1,145 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 56 | #1,304 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 95 | #935 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 82 | #984 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 120 | #801 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 87 | #966 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 34 | #1,705 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 46 | #1,398 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 52 | #1,276 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 61 | #1,124 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 46 | #1,344 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 63 | #1,051 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 61 | #1,071 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 42 | #1,318 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 43 | #1,259 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 30 | #1,572 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 43 | #1,276 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 63 | #1,027 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 42 | #1,226 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 45 | #1,121 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 40 | #1,185 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 45 | #1,103 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 42 | #1,170 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 45 | #1,150 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 66 | #920 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 77 | #864 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 88 | #813 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 91 | #799 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 50 | #1,091 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 49 | #1,093 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 43 | #1,188 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 69 | #899 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 53 | #1,036 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 58 | #977 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 52 | #1,004 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 60 | #915 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 44 | #1,086 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 50 | #980 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 46 | #1,033 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 28 | #1,385 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 42 | #1,125 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 32 | #1,243 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 17 | #1,646 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,544 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,543 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 43 | #1,028 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 14 | #1,934 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,444 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,589 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 20 | #1,535 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,546 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 8 | #2,699 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,063 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,616 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,512 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,667 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,133 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,491 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 17 | #1,876 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,078 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,066 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,101 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 21 | #1,697 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 18 | #1,915 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 19 | #1,824 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 23 | #1,602 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 23 | #1,598 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 21 | #1,711 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 17 | #1,902 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,185 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 21 | #1,606 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 23 | #1,469 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 16 | #1,810 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 20 | #1,356 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 16 | #1,326 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 8 | #1,931 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 6 | #1,590 | 0.03 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,518 | 0.03 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,260 | 0.04 |
| 1905 | 9 | #859 | 0.07 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Eliot a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 8,465 Americans recorded as Eliot, 7% are girls and 93% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Eliot: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eliot, and how old are they?
7,370 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 8,465 Americans ever recorded as Eliot. The median Eliot alive today is 20 years old; half are between 11 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 6,976 people named Eliot (570 women and girls, 6,406 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,679 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 68 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 708 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 676 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,220 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,320 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,370 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Eliot born?
The states with the most babies named Eliot are Texas, California and New York, with 51% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 19 | #1,142 | 0.5× |
| California | 16 | #1,214 | 0.8× |
| New York | 7 | #1,461 | 1.7× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,519 | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,062 | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,168 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,146 | 0.5× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #813 | 2.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,290 | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,078 | 0.1× |
Where Eliot is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Eliot is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1910 it was given 2.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Eliot with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 146,880 babies since 1880, Eliot is the third most given (5.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 149 of their 5,643 babies (2.6%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Eliot
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Eliot and names like it
- Compare Eliot and ElliottBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEliot peaked in 2012.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eliot since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Eliot.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Eliot alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.