Elliot - for a girl?

[DaniellaRose]

What do you think?

I like it.

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

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.

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

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

No, for the reason freckledfog has stated

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

Love it, great name for boy or girl

Only if you would call a boy Susannah.

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

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 :)

The obvious short form Ellie is certainly very feminine

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.

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

Actually really like it.