Elliott

Where Elliott comes from

English surname derived from a Middle English diminutive of Elie, Old French form of Elias or Elijah, meaning "my God is Yahweh". As a Scottish surname it may also represent Gaelic Elloch from a word meaning a dam or bank.
— Wiktionary's entry for Elliott
  • Hebrew
  • 3 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #373 among boys — 21 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1938
    Elliott Gould born
    American actor
  3. 1969
    Elliott Smith born
    American musician
  4. 2020
    Peak, #158
    2,365 babies named Elliott — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
  • A male given name from Hebrew.
  • A male given name transferred from the surname (today representing transferred use of the surname)
Namesakes
  • Elliott Gould · American actor, born 1938
  • Elliott Smith · American musician, 1969–2003
  • Elliott Erwitt · French-born American advertising and documentary photographer, 1928–2023
  • Elliott Carter · American composer, 1908–2012
  • Elliott Coues · American ornithologist, 1842–1899

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.