Scot
The boy's name Scot has been in the national records since 1940, with 13,732 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 10,695th. About 11,000 Scots are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 57.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Scot boys named Scot
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 13,732
- Estimated living today
- 11,000
- Median age today
- 57
- Peak year
- 1970
- Best rank
- 310th
- Rank in 2025
- 10,695th
- First recorded
- 1940
- Girls / boys
- 11 / 13,721
How old the living Scots are
born that year still alive today
Of the 13,732 babies given the name since 1940, about 11,000 are alive — 83 in every hundred. Roughly 150 of them are children and 2,400 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1968 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
From Old English Sċottas (“people from Ireland, Irishmen”), from Latin Scōttī (see Scōtī for more).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Scots
- Scot Gemmill (born 1971)Scottish footballer
- Scot Pollard (born 1975)American basketball player and reality television contestant
People named Scot with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Scot is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Scot is most concentrated in Hawaii (3.2×), Iowa (2.4×), Wisconsin (2.3×), Maine (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1970
The most popular boys’ names the year Scot peaked:
Scot elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland boys | Scot | 298 | 155th |
| England and Wales boys | Scot | 92 | 1,498th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Scot | 3 | 271st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Scot against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.