Eliot
Eliot is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 137 births. Its best rank was 800th, in 1960.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1370.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2012216 births
- Best rank
- #800in 1960
- Since 1905
- 8,313people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,759 boys have been named Eliot in the United States since 1905, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2012, with 216 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1999, and the 2010s alone account for 24%. It has spent 16 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 554 girls have also been given it, 6.7% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Eliot | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 20 | |
| 1910s | 141 | |
| 1920s | 188 | |
| 1930s | 141 | |
| 1940s | 285 | |
| 1950s | 528 | |
| 1960s | 581 | |
| 1970s | 504 | |
| 1980s | 754 | |
| 1990s | 807 | |
| 2000s | 1,243 | |
| 2010s | 1,847 | |
| 2020s | 720 |
In 2012, its biggest year
Eliot was the 943rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2012 were Jacob, Mason, Ethan, Noah and William. See all of 2012.
Names that rose and fell with Eliot
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jaepeak 2020
- Marcianopeak 2013
- Cypeak 2010
- Konradpeak 2010
- Ablepeak 2014
- Jeronimopeak 2023
- Reedpeak 2014
- Charlestonpeak 2015
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.