Scot
Scot was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,767 among boys’ names; 13,732 Americans have been recorded with it since 1940 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,300 Americans named Scot and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 51 and 64.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Scot by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Scot mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Scot is “a male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage, variant of Scott.” Its etymology gives the sense “people from Ireland, Irishmen” (Sċottas).
Inherited from Middle English Scot, from Old English Sċottas (“people from Ireland, Irishmen”), from Late Latin Scōttī.
/ˈskɑt/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Scot?
#11,767 among boys’ names, 2025
Scot fell from #7,937 in 2015 to #11,767 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.2 to 3.5 per million.
633 babies in 1970, the peak
Scot peaked in 1970, when 633 boys were given it, #311 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,767 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 5 | #13,898 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,596 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,658 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,896 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 5 | #13,761 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 5 | #13,906 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,521 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,937 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,563 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (83)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 11 | #7,462 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 10 | #8,032 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 8 | #9,448 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 18 | #5,206 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 17 | #5,507 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 15 | #6,005 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 23 | #4,346 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 18 | #5,029 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,234 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 21 | #4,236 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 22 | #3,950 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 23 | #3,758 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 24 | #3,595 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 28 | #3,131 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 46 | #2,089 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 42 | #2,190 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 47 | #1,954 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,065 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 47 | #1,855 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 55 | #1,654 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 65 | #1,453 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 83 | #1,239 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 76 | #1,288 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 84 | #1,190 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 94 | #1,086 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 91 | #1,035 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 113 | #882 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 118 | #834 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 102 | #900 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 123 | #783 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 108 | #842 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 143 | #728 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 163 | #678 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 138 | #748 | 0.08 |
| 1979 | 185 | #632 | 0.11 |
| 1978 | 183 | #616 | 0.11 |
| 1977 | 201 | #598 | 0.12 |
| 1976 | 236 | #525 | 0.15 |
| 1975 | 331 | #434 | 0.21 |
| 1974 | 324 | #440 | 0.21 |
| 1973 | 344 | #423 | 0.22 |
| 1972 | 437 | #375 | 0.27 |
| 1971 | 576 | #324 | 0.33 |
| 1970 | 633 | #311 | 0.34 |
| 1969 | 588 | #316 | 0.33 |
| 1968 | 555 | #322 | 0.32 |
| 1967 | 510 | #333 | 0.29 |
| 1966 | 500 | #337 | 0.28 |
| 1965 | 515 | #333 | 0.28 |
| 1964 | 569 | #329 | 0.29 |
| 1963 | 506 | #342 | 0.25 |
| 1962 | 537 | #337 | 0.26 |
| 1961 | 463 | #369 | 0.22 |
| 1960 | 501 | #348 | 0.23 |
| 1959 | 524 | #338 | 0.25 |
| 1958 | 562 | #325 | 0.26 |
| 1957 | 457 | #356 | 0.21 |
| 1956 | 391 | #378 | 0.18 |
| 1955 | 270 | #451 | 0.13 |
| 1954 | 214 | #497 | 0.10 |
| 1953 | 121 | #651 | 0.06 |
| 1952 | 99 | #707 | 0.05 |
| 1951 | 73 | #826 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 58 | #901 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 41 | #1,108 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 32 | #1,293 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 24 | #1,550 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,128 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,375 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 10 | #2,447 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 9 | #2,710 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,932 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,092 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Scot a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Scot has been given almost only to boys: 11 girls in 83 years of records.
Girls and boys named Scot: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Scot, and how old are they?
11,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 83% of the 13,732 Americans ever recorded as Scot. The median Scot alive today is 58 years old; half are between 51 and 64.
The 2020 Census counted 12,000 people named Scot (27 women and girls, 11,973 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,962 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 15 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,980 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5,460 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,430 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 371 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 83 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Scot born?
The states with the most babies named Scot are California, Ohio and Illinois, with 29% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,339 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 944 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 844 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 778 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 766 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 694 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Wisconsin | 498 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Texas | 476 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 469 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Massachusetts | 396 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Scot is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Scot is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1940 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Scot with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 791,337 babies since 1880, Scot is the second most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 567 babies (1.1%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Scot
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Scot and names like it
- Compare Scot and ScottBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sScot peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Scot since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Scot: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Scot.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Scot alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.