Elliott is a medieval English spin on Elijah, the Hebrew prophet whose name means "my God is the Lord." The double-t spelling lends a particular literary air, evoking T.S. Eliot's spare modernism and the bicycle-borne hero of E.T. It has shifted gracefully into unisex territory in the last decade, and now sits in the U.S. top 160s for both boys and girls. Three light syllables, a gentle liquid middle, a crisp finish. Elliott feels like a name that reads widely, plays an instrument, and asks unexpectedly good questions at dinner. Gentle, intelligent, quietly cool.
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1880 to today
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Sibling name ideas
- Beckett
- Peyton
- Oakley
- Hayden
- Elliot
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- Hayden
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