Scottie — #1189 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Scottie

The Social Security Administration has registered 10,895 babies named Scottie between 1913 and 2024, spanning 112 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Scottie currently holds the #1189 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1971, when 634 babies received it in a single year. Scottie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 4,587 additional births since 1885.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Scottie performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 3,619 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Scottie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 1,065 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Tennessee and Kentucky. In total, SSA state-level files list Scottie in 27 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Scottie in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 10,895 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.