I have been really liking [name_u]Elliot[/name_u] lately but there’s just one thing that puts be off, it’s growing popularity on the girls side. I, personally only know one [name_u]Elliot[/name_u] who is a boy however on the programme Quints By Surprise the older sister is called [name_u]Eliot[/name_u].
[name_f]Do[/name_f] you know any girls called [name_u]Elliot[/name_u]/other spellings? [name_m]How[/name_m] old are they?
[name_f]Do[/name_f] you think that in ten years [name_u]Elliot[/name_u] will be more of a girls name than a boys?
I know one girl [name_u]Elliot[/name_u] (about 22) and one boy [name_u]Elliot[/name_u] (about 16). I definitely prefer it on a boy. I really, really hope it doesn’t go over to the girls!
I don’t know any girls named [name_u]Elliot[/name_u], but I do know one boy, he’d be 19-21. I adore the name [name_u]Elliot[/name_u]/[name_u]Elliott[/name_u] for a boy so much, but I have the same worries as you!
Hopefully people will stop stealing masculine names for girls; it’s getting really annoying.
No, don’t worry about it, those names are completely different. Compare these two graphs:
[name_u]Madison[/name_u] is a surname with some history of use as a boy’s first name, but it was very uncommon for both sexes when it exploded in popularity as a girl’s name in the 80s. Although there was a small increase in usage as a boy’s name, that was always far behind the girl’s name figures. It’s a typical trend name that rose very quickly in popularity out of nowhere and is now rapidly declining again.
[name_u]Eliot[/name_u] is a traditional male name. The usage on girls is and always has been far, far behind the usage on boys and you can see that it is rising in popularity more steeply as a boy’s name than a girl’s name. [name_u]Eliot[/name_u] as a girl’s name is a blip, it’s never going to overtake [name_u]Eliot[/name_u] as a boy’s name. Not in ten years at any rate. I’d say that [name_u]Eliot[/name_u] is well on its way to the top 100 for boys.
Oh, I just noticed you’re in the UK not the US! Then you have zero worries, honestly. In the UK [name_u]Eliot[/name_u] doesn’t even rank as a girl’s name, and it’s already top 100 as a boy’s name (and has been since the 90s).
Thank you jackal I looked at the graphs and changed it to the UK version, they were really helpful. I wanted to know the US standing as well because there’s a good change that I will live there when I am old enough.
As has been said I think you’re fine with [name_u]Elliot[/name_u] - yes you may occasionally run onto a girl with the name, but I think it will remain primarily used for boys (so more like [name_u]Dylan[/name_u] or [name_u]Ryan[/name_u] than [name_u]Madison[/name_u]).