Elliot
Meaning of Elliot
Elliot—rooted in the Hebrew proclamation “Yahweh is my God,” yet rolling off the tongue like the soft chime of a Kyoto furin—moves through history with the quiet assurance of a tea‐house stream, never hurried, never still; he is at once the resolute prophet Elijah in a new suit of letters and the moonlit bicyclist who once ferried an extra-terrestrial across a suburban sky, a duality that amuses him in the way a stone lantern smiles at passing fireflies. Literary souls recall T. S. Eliot pruning words like a meticulous bonsai master, while film lovers picture Spielberg’s tousle-haired dreamer, and somewhere in between, parents notice that Elliot has lingered coolly within America’s Top 200 names for generations before gliding, almost imperceptibly, to the edge of the Top 150 in recent years—proof that restraint can be its own kind of flourish.
Pronunciation
English
- Pronunced as EL-ee-uht (/ˈɛliət/)
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Notable People Named Elliot
| Elliot Page is a Canadian actor, producer, and LGBTQ rights activist known for leading film and TV roles and for nominations for an Academy Award, three BAFTAs, two Emmys, a Golden Globe, and a SAG Award. |
| Elliot Grandin is a French former pro footballer best known as a winger. |
| Elliot Ackerman is an American author and former Marine Raider and CIA officer, a New York Times bestselling novelist and memoirist whose acclaimed work and decorated service in Iraq and Afghanistan earned major award nominations and the Silver Star, Bronze Star with Valor, and Purple Heart. |
| Elliot Richardson was an American lawyer and Republican politician who held four cabinet posts and, during Watergate, resigned as Attorney General rather than fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox, helping lead to the resignation of President Nixon. |
| Elliot Aronson is an American psychologist known for cognitive dissonance research, creating the Jigsaw Classroom to reduce prejudice, and emphasizing in The Social Animal how situations shape behavior. |
| Elliot S. Maggin is an American writer best known for his Superman work as a leading DC Comics author in the 1970s and 1980s. |
| Elliot Goldenthal is an American composer known for his inventive blend of styles who won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Original Score for Frida. |
| Elliot Daly is an English rugby union player, a versatile back for Saracens and the England national team. |
| Elliot Sperling, a MacArthur Fellow and leading historian of Tibet and Tibetan Chinese relations, spent most of his career at Indiana University’s Department of Central Eurasian Studies, including seven years as chair. |
| Elliot Valentin Cadeau is an American and Swedish college basketball player for the Michigan Wolverines, previously with North Carolina, born in the United States but representing Sweden internationally. |
| Elliot Morley is a British former Labour MP for the Scunthorpe area who in 2011 was jailed for false accounting over parliamentary expenses. |
| Elliot Wayne Eisner was a Stanford professor and leading voice in arts education and curriculum reform, honored with major awards including the Grawemeyer, Brock International Prize, Jose Vasconcelos World Award of Education, and Sir Herbert Read Award. |
| Elliot Wallis is an English rugby league winger for Castleford Tigers on loan from Huddersfield Giants. |
| Elliot Yeo is a West Coast Eagles AFL player and former Brisbane Lion who won the 2018 premiership and is a two time All Australian, John Worsfold Medallist, and Glendinning Allan Medallist. |
