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Elliot - for a girl?

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DaniellaRose · 14/06/2017 21:29

What do you think?

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smellybeanpole · 30/09/2017 18:47

Actually really like it.

Mclaren37 · 30/09/2017 18:45

I really like Elliott for a girl, go for it!

Fridgedooropen · 30/09/2017 17:07

The Elliot character on Scrubs was called that because her parents wanted a girl. The joke is that she's a girl who's been given a boy's name. If that's the impression you want to make, go right ahead.

pipilangstrumpf · 30/09/2017 17:02

The obvious short form Ellie is certainly very feminine

Smoliver · 30/09/2017 16:29

There was a character on the TV show Scrubs, who was a female doctor called Elliot. That was the first time I heard that name so when I heard Elliot being used for a boy I was like "Wait what?"

Long story short, I like this name on a girl :)

carrotcakecupcake · 30/09/2017 14:27

It’s strikes me as very American to use it as a girls name.

BertrandRussell · 30/09/2017 14:26

Only if you would call a boy Susannah.

allthegoodusernameshavegone · 30/09/2017 14:23

Love it, great name for boy or girl

HoratioNightboy · 30/09/2017 14:21

Indiemaria is correct to say it was previously a girl's name. Unisex, to be strictly accurate.

In mediaeval times there was both a feminine and masculine form of Ellis - the male name was a form of Elias and the female a variant of Alice. Both used Eliot as a diminutive form.

Have a look at this link if you're interested in old English names:

homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~oel/givennames.html#E

pilates · 30/09/2017 09:19

No, for the reason freckledfog has stated

Indiemaria · 30/09/2017 08:22

I read that Back in the 1800's Elliotte was a girls name. Like Charlotte is to Charles and Harriette is to Harold / harry, Elliotte is to Elijah. In Australia they even have lady elliott island so it is feminine and I love it. So much so that my daughter is called elliotte x

Ceebs85 · 17/06/2017 02:22

@PunkrockerGirl I'm not sure he does. He wanted Arcadia. She's clearly screwed.

FreckledFrog · 16/06/2017 22:28

I'm a girl with a definite boys name and I would urge you not to do it to her. There are so many beautiful yet strong and sassy names out there. Don't subject her to a life of explaining her name or dreading when someone asks.

Foureyesarebetterthantwo · 16/06/2017 21:46

The more I think about it, the more I like it. It sounds like a girl's name!

SimonsPies · 16/06/2017 21:41

I like it.

sparechange · 16/06/2017 21:37

Elodie? Eloise?

PunkrockerGirl · 16/06/2017 20:44

Daniella
At no point did the OP indicate that she was French, or had French family connections.

Ceebs85
Thank God your DP has your child's best interests at heart.

AuntieStella · 16/06/2017 06:02

Ellis is also a boy's name (in the top hundred for boys in the UK)

Elliott is very popular as a boy's name round here.

If you want to give a girl a boy's name, then this meets the criteria. And it's quite as bad a Max or James.

FrancisCrawford · 16/06/2017 05:57

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catinbooties · 16/06/2017 05:56

I prefer Ellis

Ceebs85 · 16/06/2017 05:46

I really really like it. 31wks pregnant and DP vetoed it

Raines100 · 16/06/2017 05:39

I thought Elliot was a girl's name when I first heard it. It sounds so feminine. I can totally see it on a girl.

Dixiestamp · 16/06/2017 00:57

I know a little girl called Elliot!

MikeUniformMike · 15/06/2017 19:46

No. It's a boy's name.

MumBod · 15/06/2017 19:44

Elliette sounds like a brand of the pill.

Don't mind Elliot for a girl. And I have a boy one.

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