Last name: ELLIOTT
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ELLIOTT : This last name is indexed 578,935 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
ELLIOTT : 1: English: from the Middle English Old French personal name Eliot a pet form of the Old Testament name Elijah rendered in Greek as Ēlias and in Old French as Élie + the diminutive suffix -ot; compare Ellis. The name Aylett may in some cases also have been confused with or absorbed into Elliott.2: Scottish: late variant of Elwood.3: Scottish (of Breton origin): perhaps as some members of the Elliott clan believe a Scottish variant of the Breton surname Elleouet a habitational name from one of the hamlets named Allegot in Finistère.
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