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Today's generation of the Elliott family inherits a name that was first used by the Scottish tribe known as the Picts. The first family to use the name Elliott lived in Liddesdale and Teviotdale where the family has a long and distinguished history dating back to the early Middle Ages.
The clan society usually accepts that the name originated from the town and river Elliot in Angus, Scotland. [8] More likely sources claim that the Scottish surnames (Eliott, Elliot) originate from the Ellot Scottish border-clan, from a transformation of the name Elwold. [9]
Digitisation of old Scottish maps showed that there was a town whose name was pronounced as Eliot, near the foot of Glen Shee, just as Scott of Satchells said, although its strange charter spelling of Alyth was restored to later maps.
The Scottish Elliots appear to have been originally settled on the river and village of Eliot or Elot, in Forfarshire, hence the word Arbirlot, a contraction of Aber-Eliot, the river entering the sea at the parish of that name.
Sep 6, 2023 · Elliot is a given name that has its origins in Scotland. The name is derived from the town and river Elliot in Angus, Scotland. However, the origin of the Scottish surname is unclear, as much of the genealogy of the Eliott clan was destroyed in the destruction of the castle at Stobs in 1712.
Elliot tradition tells us that the Ellots in Scotland were first found and some would have taken their name from a small town written by various spellings; Alyth, Alight and Alyght, pronounced as Eliot at the foot of Glenshee in Angus, Perthshire. This doesn’t exist any more.
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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.
