girls:
547 births since 1987
#5169 (10th percentile)
boys:
7.6k births since 1905
#1354 (70th percentile)
overall:
8.2k births since 1905
#2989 (61st percentile)
The name Eliot is the #2,989 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,168 recorded births since 1905. This represents the 61.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 61.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,354 (70.5% percentile) for all time with 7,621 births since 1905. For girls, it ranks #5,169 (9.5% percentile) for all time with 547 births since 1987.
Eliot first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1905 (1905 for boys and 1987 for girls). Birth data for Eliot is available in 116 out of the 119 years between 1905 and 2023 (116 years for boys and 29 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Eliot has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 93.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Eliot reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 23.4% percentile (ranked #690) with 106 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 106 births per million (ranked 23.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Eliot ranks #778 for boys (14.6% percentile) with 75 births per million, which is 70.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Eliot reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 3.2% percentile (ranked #930) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 19 births per million (ranked 3.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Eliot ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 20.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Eliot".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Eliot is pronounced as EH-lee-uht, which has 3 syllables.
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