Eliot
Still rare enough that most Poles have never met one, but the newborns are coming: a few boys a year now, and last year more than in years past. Hebrew at root, from a name meaning "my God is Yahweh".
Eliot Pronunciation
Eliot is pronounced EL-yot (/ˈɛljɔt/).
What Eliot means
Where Eliot comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Eliot begins in Hebrew, in the name Eliyahu, which English speakers meet as Elijah or Elias. It means "my God is Yahweh", a small sentence of faith folded into one word. In medieval England, Elias wore down into a short everyday form. That form set as the surname Eliot, and only later swung back around into use as a first name.
The English record gives the name real faces. Mary Ann Evans published her novels under the name George Eliot. The poet T.S. Eliot signed his work with the same four letters. Both took a family name and made it their own. The name reached the page as a surname first, then as a Christian name given at the font.
On a Polish class register today, Eliot sits among names ending in soft vowels, its hard final t marking it out. The spelling can shift, yet the sense holds. My God is Yahweh.
How many people are named Eliot
1 in 190591 men in Poland is named Eliot. 118 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3107 among male names.
Eliot's popularity over time
5 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #919 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2018.
Where Eliot is most popular
Eliot is most popular in Silesian, 280% above the national average (4 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+175%) and Masovian (+144%).
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Silesian4 boys born+280%
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Lower Silesian2 boys born+175%
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Masovian4 boys born+144%
Eliot as a middle name
Eliot is a first name for 118 men in Poland and a middle name for another 27, an 81/19 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1622nd, between Darío (27) and Ezechiel (27).
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#1620 Darian27
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#1621 Darío27
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#1622 Eliot27
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#1623 Ezechiel27
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#1624 Félix27