Scotland
Scotland is given to both girls and boys: 90 girls and 12 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,093 among girls’ names and #7,112 among boys’, #3,504 among all names counting both); 996 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Scotland by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Scotland?
#2,093 among girls’ names, 2025
Scotland rose from #4,571 in 2015 to #2,093 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 17.4 to 56.0 per million.
103 babies in 2024, the peak
Scotland peaked in 2024, when 103 babies were given it (88 girls, #2,171 among girls’ names). The 102 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 99% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 90 | #2,093 | 12 | #7,112 |
| 2024 | 88 | #2,171 | 15 | #6,132 |
| 2023 | 57 | #2,971 | 6 | #12,010 |
| 2022 | 50 | #3,267 | 10 | #8,197 |
| 2021 | 56 | #2,996 | 7 | #10,591 |
| 2020 | 41 | #3,669 | 6 | #11,781 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,988 | 6 | #11,897 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,834 | 11 | #7,531 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,563 | 7 | #10,581 |
| 2016 | 40 | #3,839 | 9 | #8,688 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #4,571 | 11 | #7,431 |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,166 | 12 | #6,979 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,522 | 8 | #9,507 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,116 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,438 | 5 | #13,986 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,699 | 6 | #11,933 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,699 | 11 | #7,604 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,416 | 8 | #9,703 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,195 | 6 | #12,103 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,247 | 10 | #7,895 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,082 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,926 | 5 | #12,897 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,405 | 8 | #8,485 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,057 | 9 | #7,522 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,641 | 9 | #7,412 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,675 | 5 | #11,820 |
| 1999 | under 5 | 8 | #7,741 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 8 | #7,420 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 5 | #10,535 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 5 | #10,267 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 6 | #8,691 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 9 | #6,044 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 7 | #7,041 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 6 | #6,797 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 5 | #7,137 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 6 | #6,116 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 5 | #6,180 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Scotland a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 996 Americans recorded as Scotland, 73% are girls and 27% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Scotland: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Scotland, and how old are they?
An estimated 986 Americans named Scotland and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 3 and 13. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 624 people named Scotland (355 women and girls, 269 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 564 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,051 babies since 1880, Scotland is the most given (95% of them). In 2025 it was given to 102 of their 124 babies (82%), again the 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 Scotland
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 Scotland and names like it
- Compare Scotland and ScotlyndBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sScotland peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Scotland since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Scotland.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Scotland alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.