Scot

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Scot is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 38th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Old English personal name; surviving in Scott.

rarermore common
  • AUAustralia1 in 281◐
  • NZNew Zealand1 in 314
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 353

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈659K ●

across 9 countries

#185 ●

of 16M given names

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
613 ●

16M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 508 ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

ScottLatin · English●11M records
สก๊อตThai · Thai●209 records
스코트Hangul · Korean●1 records
ᲡკოტიGeorgian · Georgian●1 records
সুকুটBengali · Bangla●1 records
СкоттCyrillic · Tajik●0 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Scott in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 24 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Old English personal name; surviving in Scott

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Scot is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#38655,26713M rec.1 in 508655KScott613
GB United Kingdom#54586,509776K rec.—21Scott292
AU Australia#36411,768401K rec.—94Scott333
CA Canada#40234,228309K rec.—4Scott283
IT Italy#17951,45571K rec.——Scott89
DE Germany#50232,39146K rec.——Scott161
NZ New Zealand#1827,29934K rec.——Scott154
RU Russia#77326,33338K rec.——Scott67
IE Ireland#4324,76927K rec.—69Scott114
PH Philippines#98220,67027K rec.——Scott86
CN China—19,73729K rec.——Scott88
EG Egypt#35215,59222K rec.——Scott34

Roughly 655K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 508). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English181K84%
  • 8.9K4%
  • Spanish7.7K4%
  • German1.7K1%
  • Portuguese1.2K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English180,73684%
8,9344%
Spanish7,7354%
German1,6611%
Portuguese1,2401%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Scot is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name11K records spelled Scot4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian

    Also written Scõt

  • French surname1.6K records spelled Scot10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Italy, Spain

    Languages: French, Italian, Catalan

    Also written Scotto, Sçotto, Scottò, Sçot, Scòttò

  • Polish given name391 records spelled Scot2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Scőt

56 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Scot is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A person born in or native to Scotland.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, inhabitant of Scotland

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In Romanian, inflection of scoate:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In ang, shot, act of shooting

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In rup, to remove, take out

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

020040060080019401960198020002020633 · 1970

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Scot in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1940–2025
Yearrecords
19407
19415
19439
194410
194510
194613
194724
194832
194941
195058
195173
195299
1953121
1954214
1955270
1956391
1957457
1958562
1959524
1960501
1961463
1962537
1963506
1964569
1965515
1966500
1967510
1968555
1969588
1970633
1971576
1972437
1973344
1974324
1975331
1976236
1977201
1978183
1979185
1980138
1981163
1982143
1983108
1984123
1985102
1986118
1987113
198891
198994
199084
199176
199283
199365
199455
199547
199642
199747
199842
199946
200028
200124
200223
200322
200421
200516
200618
200723
200815
200917
201018
20118
201210
201311
201413
201510
20168
20175
20185
20196
20227
20238
20245
20256

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 83 years between 1940–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Scot Symon, b. 1911Philip S. Davidson, b. 1960Scot Eaton, b. 1965Jeff Tweedy, b. 1967Scot Armstrong, b. 1970Scot Gemmill, b. 1971Scot Williams, b. 1972Scot Pollard, b. 1975Scot Bennett, b. 1990Isaac Hayden, b. 1995

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 34 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Scot
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202012K#2,193
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1970633—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1969588—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1971576—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1964569—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1958562—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1968555—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1962537—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1959524—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1965515—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1967510—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1963506—

Reference works 5

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 199 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Scot?
We estimate roughly 659 thousand people bear Scot (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Scot have the most bearers?
We estimate about 655 thousand people bear Scot in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled scott.
How common is Scot compared with other names?
In the United States, Scot is the 38th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Scot a male or female name?
Scot is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Scot mean?
Recorded meaning: Old English personal name; surviving in Scott
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Scot” — the 38th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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