Meaning and history
From a surname that was a variant of Elliott, Eliot became known through notable bearers such as the Anglo-American poet and dramatist T. S. Eliot (1888–1965), author of The Waste Land, and the American mob-buster Eliot Ness (1903–1957), who carried it as a given name.
20062006: 128 births, rank #1,294
2007: 136 births, rank #1,283
2008: 142 births, rank #1,227
2009: 171 births, rank #1,085
2010: 207 births, rank #958
20112011: 178 births, rank #1,056
2012: 216 births, rank #942
2013: 199 births, rank #993
2014: 192 births, rank #1,043
2015: 176 births, rank #1,100
20162016: 163 births, rank #1,169
2017: 173 births, rank #1,114
2018: 183 births, rank #1,079
2019: 160 births, rank #1,193
2020: 152 births, rank #1,233
20212021: 152 births, rank #1,253
2022: 142 births, rank #1,322
2023: 138 births, rank #1,360
2024: 139 births, rank #1,359
20252025: 130 births, rank #1,401
Eliot moved from #943 to #995 for boys between 2012 and 2013. Its highest annual birth count came in 2012, with 216 births.