Elliott for a girl! What do you think?

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Just that really! DH and I expecting a little girl in November and struging with girls names. DH really likes elliott for a girl, she'd be Ellie for short. Or the other name weird is Edith and she's be Edie for short. Thoughts please

I always think of Elliott as being a girly name. Really hate it for a boy, not my favourite girl name either but think it would suit a girl fine.

If it helps, OP, the earliest recorded use of Elliot as a forename in Scotland was back in 1636 and that was for a girl. There are many more for that era, and it's not recorded for any boys until 1733.

Take that, naysayers!

I think(?) it was Ellis that was the Brontë pseudonym, and although I know that's become popular for boys again it's unisex where I'm from (and I only know girls with the name).
So gendering of names is sometimes swings and roundabouts is I suppose my point. My DS has what is a traditional boys name, it would never be used for a girl - but when we sent a simple picture and name announcement to friends on the continent, they had to ask 'boy or girl'?

I could easily see this becoming unisex.

And it is used for girls, though the numbers are relatively low (more popular in the US).

Yup, 'twas Ellis, the Bronte pseudonym. Ellis Bell?

Yesa. Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell.

Thanks **JakeyBurd.
I do love traditional names too, and apologies to anyone called Mercedes out there but not a choice I'd make!
I don't agree that she would get bullied for being called Elliotte, I think it sounds girlie, cool and just a little different! I don't know, like I said I really appreciate people's views

Love Edie.

Elliot is silly and Elliotte is, imvho, ridiculous. It's not my child though.

Maybe my baby girl could start the trend in the UK haha. There will be little Elliottes in pink everywhere

Don't like it as a boys name but LOVE it as a girls name.

I think Elliot for a girl is ridiculous but if you are really set on using it, for the love of God spell it properly not Elliotte.

Elliotte spelling is just dreadful You jest I think

You wouldn't be the first to use Elliotte, though. I've seen it before, and more than once.

I like Elliott for a girl, I look at it in a similar way to Harriet

except you never hear of boys called Harriet do you.

There are people in the world who've never watched Scrubs.

To me it sounds far too try-hard and Elliotte even more so.
People being introduced to Ellie will always think her name's Eleanor and she'll spend a lifetime explaining that it's not and in official capacities and job applications etc. that she's not a man.

By the time she's filling out job applications I think it will be far more common, as it's more common now than 10years ago as you can probably tell by the mixed views! Lots of girls are called Harry and Charlie and Jamie! It's a strong name that's feminine and just a little different and whatever we choose to band our little bean she should be proud to be a little different and not so close minded traditionalist.

I don't think it's ridiculous!! There are names out there that really are ridiculous, I would class eliott as different not ridiculous.

i'd keep one of the spellings without the final e, and go for that!

Awful for a girl

Great for a boy

I know someone who just had a girl Elliott, I don't mind it, but reaction from everyone she tells is a polite 'Oh'

That's interesting, JakeyBurd. Was it the typical Scottish use of surname for family/dynastic/inheritance reasons?

However, for the past 100 years and more, Elliot has predominantly been thought of - and used - as a boy's name. See the 1911 UK census, for example www.britishbabynames.com/blog/1911-census-elliot.html

I don't like it for a boy and definitely don't like it for a girl. But then I genreally don't like unisex names (although I think this is usually considered a boys name) and I don't like surnames as first names either which this is. Not sure why you'd use Elliott if you're going to call her Ellie anyway. People will think her name is Eleanor...

Ellies are so common, they're everywhere!
Go with Edie.

Elliott is a boy's name.

If you like Ellie then call her Eleanor or Elinor or Ella. Those are girls names.

Another no here I'm afraid. Good boys name but not a good girls name

I would never consider Elliot for a boy. For a girl however, I love it! Also recently met a little girl called Noa. Another name that I think sounds better for a girl. Go for it!

When I hear the name Elliott the first person I think of is the actress Elliott Mason. She was born in 1888, so it's hardly a new idea as a girl ' name.

I know an Elliette (girl) who is 12 but she is changing her name to Ella.

I think Elliot/Elliotte is terrible for a girl but clearly a lot of people disagree.

I like Edie (for Edith) though. That's a lovely name.