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The ELIOT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 704 31167 0 3
United States (1880 census) 822 6413 0.002 16
Change since 1880 -118 -24754 +N/A -13
Other Countries
Australia 66 20442 0 4
United Kingdom 198 16599 0 4
Top States for ELIOT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 146 16097 0.000 4
Massachusetts 57 12952 0.001 9
New York 51 33951 0.000 3
Texas 37 31879 0.000 2
Washington 33 20419 0.001 6
Top States for ELIOT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 20 7120 0.002 16
Massachusetts 57 12952 0.001 9
Kansas 21 13638 0.001 8
Washington 33 20419 0.001 6
New Hampshire 6 23920 0.000 5

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called ELIOT live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called ELIOT represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called ELIOT in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a ELIOT by picking someone at random in Maine than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of ELIOT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the ELIOT surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the ELIOT surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of ELIOT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 639 90.77
Black/African American 31 4.4
White (Hispanic) 15 2.13
Mixed Race 8 1.14
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the ELIOT surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of ELIOT in historical publications

ELIOT. See Elliott.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to ELIOT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ELIOT.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for ELIOT

The following words are slight variants of ELIOT that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.