Edmund or Elliot?

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Edmund is lovely, really dreamy.

Elliot.

Edmund is a smug Tory with a lisp and bad taste in shoes.

Or there's Edward which is nice.

Edmund (though like a PP I prefer Edwin).

They are two very different names imo - I view the name Elliot as being more modern and Edmund as more old and traditional.

Edmund is more interesting and less common.

Elliot

Edmund

I have a friend with a little boy called Eliott and with her spelling of it all I can think is it's an anagram of toilet!

Edmund x 1000000

Elliot x 1000000000.
Edmund is hideous.

Edmund. I have one. I've been told (mainly by teenage girls) that he's 'very cool indeed.'

And I've never come across an Elliott than wasn't a wee bit shifty.

Edmund. I really like it! Elliot is nice but doesn't have much umph.

Literary Edmunds are a bad lot. Narnia's Edmund, Mansfield Park's Edmund, King Lear's Edmund - all a bit crap.

I like Elliot. He got E.T back to where he needed to be.

Elliot

I'm afraid Narnia's Edmund is too much in my mind too. He was a very dubious sort.

Elliot is very nice. I'm not a big fan of Edmund, it sounds very dated and a bit staid to me. But I really like Ed and Ted as nicknames.

in defence of Edmund.

Edmund in Narnia comes good in the end and is all the better for it.
Edmund in 'King Lear', OK, he's a a baddie, but my goodness, he's got so much more 'phwoar!' going on than wishy washy Edgar (another name option? Says she, having undermined it a tad)
Edmund in 'Mansfield Park' is Fanny Price's love interest. My least favourite Austen anyway. Fanny Price! Stop being so wet!

True enough about our Narnia Edmund. C.S.Lewis was writing a Christian tale, so our Edmund had to be redeemed.

For me, though, his earlier behaviour still taints the name a bit.

But Edmund was just as wet as Fanny.

(That sentence reads dodgier than intended!)

Elliot definitely

Don't like Edmund at all - sounds pompus to me.
I love Elliot - it's not popular, but it's a nice sounding name. I imagine Elliot being a friendly calm little boy. What puts me off Elliot is that in the US It's getting popular as a name for girls.