Eliot
#6,116 for girls in 2025, 19 births · #1,401 for boys in 2025, 130 births
Given to boys 93.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1960 · 91 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 7,892since 1905
Eliot over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,116 | 19 | #1,401 | 130 |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | #1,359 | 139 |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 | #1,360 | 138 |
| 2022 | #13,592 | 6 | #1,322 | 142 |
| 2021 | #6,414 | 18 | #1,253 | 152 |
| 2020 | #5,003 | 25 | #1,233 | 152 |
| 2019 | #4,909 | 27 | #1,193 | 160 |
| 2018 | #4,001 | 36 | #1,079 | 183 |
| 2017 | #4,384 | 32 | #1,114 | 173 |
| 2016 | #4,850 | 28 | #1,169 | 163 |
| 2015 | #5,127 | 26 | #1,100 | 176 |
| 2014 | #4,544 | 31 | #1,043 | 192 |
| 2013 | #4,755 | 29 | #993 | 199 |
| 2012 | #5,710 | 23 | #942 | 216 |
| 2011 | #5,543 | 24 | #1,056 | 178 |
| 2010 | #4,974 | 28 | #958 | 207 |
| 2009 | #5,891 | 23 | #1,085 | 171 |
| 2008 | #6,130 | 22 | #1,227 | 142 |
| 2007 | #6,552 | 20 | #1,283 | 136 |
| 2006 | #7,142 | 17 | #1,294 | 128 |
| 2005 | #5,600 | 22 | #1,225 | 129 |
| 2004 | #5,208 | 24 | #1,152 | 136 |
| 2003 | #6,299 | 18 | #1,224 | 119 |
| 2002 | #7,045 | 15 | #1,281 | 106 |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | #1,307 | 100 |
| 2000 | — | #1,564 | 76 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,311 | 92 | |
| 1998 | #10,122 | 8 | #1,449 | 78 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | #1,294 | 88 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #1,314 | 83 |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 | #1,477 | 65 |
| 1994 | — | #1,633 | 56 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,279 | 79 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,162 | 90 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,130 | 94 | |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #1,201 | 82 |
| 1989 | — | #1,064 | 96 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,239 | 68 | |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | #1,140 | 70 |
| 1986 | — | #1,299 | 56 | |
| 1985 | — | #934 | 95 | |
| 1984 | — | #985 | 82 | |
| 1983 | — | #800 | 120 | |
| 1982 | — | #965 | 87 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,695 | 34 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,391 | 46 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,270 | 52 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,121 | 61 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,335 | 46 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,050 | 63 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,065 | 61 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,311 | 42 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,253 | 43 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,566 | 30 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,272 | 43 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,023 | 63 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,221 | 42 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,119 | 45 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,181 | 40 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,100 | 45 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,163 | 42 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,147 | 45 | |
| 1963 | — | #921 | 66 | |
| 1962 | — | #862 | 77 | |
| 1961 | — | #813 | 88 | |
| 1960 | — | #799 | 91 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,090 | 50 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,091 | 49 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,185 | 43 | |
| 1956 | — | #897 | 69 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,033 | 53 | |
| 1954 | — | #973 | 58 | |
| 1953 | — | #999 | 52 | |
| 1952 | — | #915 | 60 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,083 | 44 | |
| 1950 | — | #977 | 50 | |
| 1949 | — | #1,029 | 46 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,378 | 28 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,116 | 42 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,236 | 32 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,633 | 17 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,525 | 20 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,529 | 21 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,026 | 43 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,903 | 14 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,433 | 22 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,578 | 18 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,521 | 20 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,479 | 9 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,629 | 8 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,029 | 13 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,563 | 9 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,498 | 21 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,651 | 19 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,101 | 13 | |
| 1930 | — | #2,444 | 11 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,848 | 17 | |
| 1928 | — | #2,048 | 15 | |
| 1927 | — | #2,034 | 16 | |
| 1926 | — | #2,074 | 15 | |
| 1925 | — | #1,679 | 21 | |
| 1924 | — | #1,894 | 18 | |
| 1923 | — | #1,816 | 19 | |
| 1922 | — | #1,591 | 23 | |
| 1921 | — | #1,588 | 23 | |
| 1920 | — | #1,694 | 21 | |
| 1919 | — | #1,882 | 17 | |
| 1918 | — | #2,165 | 14 | |
| 1917 | — | #1,587 | 21 | |
| 1916 | — | #1,459 | 23 | |
| 1915 | — | #1,782 | 16 | |
| 1914 | — | #1,342 | 20 | |
| 1913 | — | #1,311 | 16 | |
| 1912 | — | #1,885 | 8 | |
| 1911 | — | #1,537 | 6 | |
| 1910 | — | — | ||
| 1909 | — | #1,440 | 5 | |
| 1908 | — | #1,217 | 6 | |
| 1907 | — | — | ||
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| 1905 | — | #836 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Eliot! It came in at #836, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1906–1907, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Eliot
- 42 spots since 2024 (#1,359 → #1,401)
- 168 spots since 2020 (#1,233 → #1,401)
- 301 spots since 2015 (#1,100 → #1,401)
- Biggest jump: 730 spots in 1982 (#1,695 → #965)
- Biggest drop: 365 spots in 1986 (#934 → #1,299)
- Debuted 1905
- Peaked 1960 at #799 (91 births)
- Births halved by 1964, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 1960–1963
- Highest: 1 in 8,782 boys born in 2012 were named Eliot (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 13,139 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #799 in 1960, was only 1 in 23,432 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 23.4% of all boys named Eliot (1,847) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 20 | #836 (1905) | #1,164 |
| 1910s | 141 | #1,311 (1913) | #1,661 |
| 1920s | 188 | #1,588 (1921) | #1,827 |
| 1930s | 141 | #1,498 (1933) | #2,049 |
| 1940s | 285 | #1,026 (1942) | #1,381 |
| 1950s | 528 | #897 (1956) | #1,024 |
| 1960s | 581 | #799 (1960) | #1,033 |
| 1970s | 504 | #1,023 (1970) | #1,227 |
| 1980s | 754 | #800 (1983) | #1,151 |
| 1990s | 807 | #1,130 (1991) | #1,325 |
| 2000s | 1,243 | #1,085 (2009) | #1,264 |
| 2010s | 1,847 | #942 (2012) | #1,065 |
| 2020s | 853 | #1,233 (2020) | #1,321 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Eliot in 2014
Top girls' names in 2014
Top boys' names in 2014
More about 2014
girls
1,786,355 girls got a published name in 2014; 1 in 57,624 of them was named Eliot, which outranked 76.4% of the 19,232 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,455Tehya32
- #4,455Tzipora32
- #4,455Yuridia32
- #4,544Eliot31
- #4,544Aariana31
- #4,544Adali31
- #4,544Aime31
- #4,657Abrar30
- #4,657Aerilyn30
- #4,657Ailee30
Tied with 112 names at #4,544; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 3,632Aranza#4,243 → #611
- ↑ 576Montserrat#1,148 → #572
- ↑ 573Monserrat#1,165 → #592
- ↑ 463Maisie#1,116 → #653
- ↑ 419Ariadne#1,220 → #801
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,920,871 boys got a published name in 2014; 1 in 10,005 of them was named Eliot, which outranked 92.6% of the 14,081 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).