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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| 1880 | — | — | ||
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 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 47,252 of them was named Eliot, which outranked 78.0% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,918Vaeda37
- #3,918Verna37
- #3,918Yessenia37
- #4,001Eliot36
- #4,001Adalena36
- #4,001Adelaine36
- #4,001Ahlam36
- #4,076Adelin35
- #4,076Ahri35
- #4,076Alesia35
Tied with 74 names at #4,001; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 9,924 of them was named Eliot, which outranked 92.4% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,074Nazir185
- #1,077Foster184
- #1,077Lev184
- #1,079Eliot183
- #1,079Ayan183
- #1,079Kolt183
- #1,079Legacy183
- #1,086Bellamy182
- #1,086Kiaan182
- #1,086Kolby182
Tied with 6 names at #1,079; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.