How Many People Are Named Eliot?
people named Eliot are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 46,187 people in the US has this name
Based on 8,465 babies named Eliot in Social Security records from 1905 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
239 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From a surname which was a variant of ELLIOTT. A famous bearer of the surname was T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), an Anglo-American poet and dramatist, the writer of 'The Waste Land'. As a given name, it was borne by the American mob-buster Eliot Ness (1903-1957).
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Eliot in English. Counting Eliot and these spellings together, about 131,853 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Eliot, 7.7% were girls and 92.3% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1910s: 0% of the babies were girls then and 8.8% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Eliot alive today is about 26 years old, and 65% are under 30. Half of them were between 10 and 40 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Eliot first appears in the records in 1905 and was given most often in 2012, to 239 babies. In 2025, 149 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1905 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Eliot has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #799, in 1960. In 2025 it ranked #1,403.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,403 |
| Best rank | #799 (1960) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,064 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Eliot alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Eliot were born in New York than in any other state: about 819 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Eliot was given 5.5 times as often in Massachusetts, 3.4 times in New York and 1.6 times in California.
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