elliot or Elliott, help!!!

[KatieT12]

I think we have decided on elliot/Elliott - every day I think the other one is better and then change, it's just impossible

Elliott.

Like Elliott Smith.

And Elliott from ET.

Elliott looks better to me.

Elliott

Elliott.

Mine is an Elliot. With 2 t's it looks like a surname.

Ell-i-ott.

Did you learn nothing from E.T.??!

Elliot.

We chose Elliott.

Elliott.

Quite cool to be able to clarify the spelling with 'double L; double T.'

Thanks all

Exactly as looby says - ours is an Elliot, two t's is a surname. Lots of people spell it that way though..

Elliot

Ive seen lots of people with the one t as a surname? Look at Billy Elliot

I would just keep your surname however it is spelled, either is fine. Have you chosen a first name?

I like eli

Or he could be named after T S Eliot just to confuse matters further.

It will be his first name???

Elliott is lovely, also makes it easier if you need to spell it for someone as you can just say it has two Ls & two Ts!

Mine is Elliot, 1 t. I always think 2 ts looks more like a surname, as others have said. Definitely NOT Eliot, which even as a surname I think looks odd.

Mine is Elliott, and we thought the same as PP- that it would be easier to clarify spelling. However, in the last 10mo since he was born I have noticed most people default to Elliot, and we are always having to correct them!

The character in Noël Coward's Private Lives is Elyot...

Other DS is Louis and people either spell it Louie or call him Lewis, so I suppose I've already had to correct people! I think I'll go for Elliott... It looks 'cleaner'? I suppose the original is Elliot though, urgh!!

It is one of these names that will always be spelt incorrectly regardless even some of my family spell it wrong on occasion!

DS has a surname that is always spelt incorrectly too, but it has two double letters in it too so Elliott seemed like the sensible choice for us.