Eliot — #1369 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Eliot

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,759 babies named Eliot between 1905 and 2024, spanning 120 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Eliot currently holds the #1369 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 216 babies received it in a single year. Eliot is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 554 additional births since 1987.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Eliot performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,847 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Eliot shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 988 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Massachusetts. In total, SSA state-level files list Eliot in 30 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Eliot in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 7,759 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.