How Many People Are Named Scot?
people named Scot are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 29,871 people in the US has this name
Based on 13,732 babies named Scot in Social Security records from 1940 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
633 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant form of SCOTT.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Scot in English. Counting Scot and these spellings together, about 666,437 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Scot (99.9%) were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Scot alive today is about 55 years old, and 56% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 50 and 63 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Scot first appears in the records in 1940 and was given most often in 1970, to 633 babies. In 2025, 6 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1940 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Scot has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #311, in 1970. In 2025 it ranked #11,767.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #11,767 |
| Best rank | #311 (1970) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #340 in the 1960s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Scot alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Scot were born in California than in any other state: about 1,101 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Scot was given 2.7 times as often in Hawaii, 2.3 times in Iowa and 2.1 times in Maine.
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