Eliot

A male given name, form of Elias.

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Elliot (also spelled Eliot, Elliott, Eliott and Elyot) is a personal name which can serve as either a surname or a given name. Although the given name was historically given to males, females named Elliot have increased from 414 in 2009 to 770 in 2013, in United States. The origin of the surname is obscure, perhaps due to much of the genealogy of the Eliott clan being burnt in the destruction of the castle at Stobs in 1712 AD. The clan society usually accepts that the name originated from the town and river Elliot in Angus, Scotland. Some other sources suggest it may be derived from a French form of Elias, which is itself derived from the biblical name "Elijah". Yet other sources claim that the Scottish surnames (Eliott, Elliot) originate from the Ellot Scottish border-clan, from a transformation of the name Elwold. There are also records in the Domesday Book of the name spelled "Ailiet", thought to originate from an old English name "Æþelgeat" (meaning "noble gate") and leading to the English and Scottish given name spelled "Elyat", which in turn leads to the modern alternative spelling of the name "Elyot".
Legend has it that the extra "t" in Eliott arose when a branch of the Eliotts adopted Christianity. Differences in spelling can be distinguished in this rhyme:
The double L and single T / Descent from Minto and Wolflee, / The double T and single L / Mark the old racce in Stobs that dwell. / The single L and single T / The Eliots of St Germans be, / But double T and double L, / Who they are nobody can tell.
Robert Bell in The Book of Scots-Irish Family Names adds: "For double L and double T, / the Scots should look across the sea!" He pointed out that 71 of 76 births of children by that name in Ireland in 1890 spelt it "Elliott." Elliot(t)s emigrated or were sent to Ireland in the early 17th century after the unification of the English and Scottish crowns. The Elliot(t)s were notorious reivers – cattle thieves – in the Scottish-English border area and, as such, a thorn in the side of both governments. Many settled in county Fermanagh.
It is generally agreed that spelling of the surname originated in the early 13th century as "Eliot" as there is reference to "Geoffrey Eliot", Abbot of Hyde, in documents linked to the creation of the Magna Carta.
Among the many famous people with this name are the authors T. S. Eliot and George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans). Jane Austen's last completed novel Persuasion includes characters belonging to the Elliot family of Kellynch Hall; Sir Walter Elliot, Bart., and his daughters Anne and Elizabeth.

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Surname, Old French diminutive of Elias (French Elie; see Elijah) + -ot. It absorbed the Anglo-Saxon proper names Æðelgeat and Ælfweald "Elf-ruler."

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Derived from Hebrew Elijah: my god is the lord.

Lottie, Elliot

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	T. S. Eliot	1888	20th century English author
2	Eliot Ness	1903	American law enforcement official
3	Eliot Spitzer	1959	54th Governor of New York
4	I Blame Coco	1990	English musician
5	Eliot A. Cohen	1956	American neoconservative military historian
6	Eliot Engel	1947	American politician
7	Eliot Higgins	1979	British citizen journalist and blogger
8	Charles William Eliot	1834	President of Harvard
9	Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot	1888	Wife of T S Elliot
10	Eliot Porter	1901	American photographer
11	Eliot Feld	1942	American ballet dancer and choreographer
12	Eliot Marshall	1980	American martial artist
13	Eliot Wolf	1982	Director of Player Personnel of the Green Bay Packers
14	Valerie Eliot	1926	British editor; widow of T.S. Eliot
15	Eliot Cutler	1946	American politician and lawyer
16	Darren Eliot	1961	Canadian ice hockey player
17	Eliot Kennedy	2000	British songwriter and record producer
18	Eliot Noyes	1910	American architect and industrial designer
19	Eliot Lewis	1962	American musician
20	Eliot Asinof	1919	American sportswriter, tax resister
21	Eliot Fisk	1954	American musician
22	Louis Eliot	1968	Singer, songwriter and guitarist
23	Eliot Weinberger	1949	American writer
24	Jim Eliot
25	Eliot Coleman	1938	American farmer and writer
26	Eliot Richards	1991	Welsh ootballer
27	William Greenleaf Eliot	1811	American academic
28	Eliot Rosewater
29	Eliot Wigginton	1942	American folklorist
30	Margaret Eliot	1914	Professor of Oboe
31	Eliot Teltscher	1959	American tennis player
32	Charles Eliot	1862	British diplomat, colonial administrator, diplomat, and biologist
33	Jago Eliot	1966	British Baron
34	Eliot Pattison	1951	American writer and lawyer
35	Eliot Makeham	1882	Actor
36	Eliot Glassheim	1938	American politician
37	Eliot Elisofon	1911	Photographer
38	Thomas H. Eliot	1907	American politician
39	Henry Ware Eliot	1843	American businessman
40	Eliot Hodgkin	1905	British artist
41	Alexander Eliot	1919	American writer
42	Eliot Horowitz		Businessperson
43	Eliot Lipp		American musician
44	Thomas D. Eliot	1808	American politician
45	Ray Eliot	1905	American football and baseball player and coach, college athletics administrator
46	Eliot Janeway	1913	American economist and journalist
47	Edward James Eliot	1758	British politician
48	Eliot Zborowski		American racecar driver
49	Eliot James		British record producer
50	Thomas Lamb Eliot	1841	American clergyman
51	Eliot Schrefer	1978	American author
52	Eliot Hyman	1904	American film executive
53	Eliot Zigmund	1945	American jazz drummer
54	Jan Eliot	1950	Cartoonist
55	Eliot Shapleigh	1952	American politician
56	Eliot Deutsch		American philosopher
57	Eliot Morris	1977	American musician
58	Eliot Slater	1904	British psychiatrist
59	Edward Craggs-Eliot, 1st Baron Eliot	1727	English Member of Parliament for St Germans, Cornwall
60	Lise Eliot		Associate Professor of Neuroscience at The Chicago Medical School
61	Eliot Wald	1946	American comedian
62	Eliot Otis Brown Walters	1993	British actor
63	Eliot Daniel	1908	American composer
64	George Fielding Eliot	1894	Second Lieutenant in the Australian army in World War I
65	Eliot A. Jardines		American civil servant
66	Jared Eliot	1685	American colonist
67	Eliot Bliss	1903	Novelist
68	Eliot Cowan	1946	American healer
69	George Eliot		English spy in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I
70	Eliot Antonietti	1993	Swiss ice hockey player
71	Eliot Goldfinger		Artist
72	Martha May Eliot	1891	American physician
73	Eliot Frankel	1923	American producer
74	Winslow Eliot	1956	American writer
75	Eliot Crawshay-Williams	1879	British politician
76	Henry Eliot Howard	1873	Amateur English ornithologist
77	Eliot Stannard	1888	Screenwriter
78	Eliot Halverson	1990	Figure skater
79	Samuel Atkins Eliot	1862	American historian and theologian
80	D.J. Eliot	1976
81	Eliot Bronson	1979	American musician
82	Samuel Eliot	1739	American banker
83	Eliot Tokar		American practitioner of Tibetan medicine
84	Edward Carlyon Eliot	1879	British diplomat
85	Eliot Kleinberg	1956	American journalist
86	Francis Perceval Eliot	1755	Military officer, auditor, man of letters
87	John Nevill Eliot		English lepidopterist
88	Eliot Tabron	1960	Track and field athlete
89	Beatbox Eliot	1972
90	Richard Eliot		Smooth jazz saxophonist
91	Maurice Eliot	1862	French artist
92	Andrew Eliot	1718	American clergy
93	Eliot Berthon	1992	French ice hockey player
94	John Eliot	1612	English politician, died 1685
95	Eliot V. Elliott	1902	Australian trade unionist
96	Eliot Martin	1959	English footballer
97	Peter Eliot	1910	British Archdeacon
98	Eliot Chapple	1910	American anthropologist
99	Elias Eliot	1976	Danish actor
100	Eliot Lear		Computer engineer
101	Edward John Eliot	1782	Cavalry officer
102	Eliot Yorke	1805	British politician
103	Eliot Lietaer	1990	Cyclist
104	Eliot Stellar	1919	American psychologist
105	Philip Eliot	1862	British bishop
106	William Havard Eliot	1796	American architect
107	Eliot Spencer		Character from Leverage
108	Eliot Maraux	1996	French basketball player
109	Eliot Gant	1926
110	Eliot Butler Willauer	1912	American architect
111	Eliot Davis	1871	New Zealand politician
112	Eliot Connors	1984
113	Eliot Bromley-Martin	1866	Cricketer
114	Eliot Callis
115	William Eliot	1586	English politician
116	Abigail Adams Eliot	1892	Educator and authority on early childhood education
117	Eliot Druce	1876	English cricketer
118	Eliot Quataert
119	Eliot Blackwelder	1880	American geologist
120	Jeanne Eliot	1861	French painter (1861-1937)
121	Marjorie Eliot
122	Edward Eliot	1864
123	Marc Eliot	1946	American biographer