The elliott Surname

elliott Name Meaning and History

English: from a Middle English personal name, Elyat, Elyt. This represents at least two Old English personal names which have fallen together: the male name A{dh}elgeat (composed of the elements a{dh}el ‘noble’ + Geat, a tribal name; see Jocelyn), and the female personal name A{dh}elg¯{dh} (composed of the elements a{dh}el ‘noble’ + g¯{dh} ‘battle’). The Middle English name seems also to have absorbed various other personal names of Old English or Continental Germanic origin, as for example Old English Ælfweald (see Ellwood).
English: from a pet form of Ellis.
Scottish: Anglicized form of the originally distinct Gaelic surname Elloch, Eloth, a topographic name from Gaelic eileach ‘dam’, ‘mound’, ‘bank’. Compare Eliot.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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elliott Family Facts

Distribution of elliott Families in the US in 1920

Number of elliott families

560-1117

187-559

1-186

Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 3033 - Messages: 6489

Thread	Author	Replies
Boney T. Elliott	oneida1958	5
Benjamin Elliott of Virginia	vwwood_1	1
S H Elliott	townwlfhwk	2
POW/MIA Korean War, ELLIOTT	powmiadna	0
Elliots from Ireland to Illinois to Kansas	janwojo1	0
Abraham, William and Edward Elliott	charisma_classic	1
George W Elliott of Decatur, IL (or area)	charisma_classic	5
Thomas Davis Elliott m1st Nancy Burnham, m2nd, Mary Duncan and son William C. Elliott	blougood	4
trying to find descendants of Elliotts from tipperrary	annebleasdale71	6
Elliott family of Cross Creek Twp	ker17moh	0

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