How rare is the name Scot?

12,000 people in the United States have the first name Scot, about 1 in 25,169. It ranks #2,193 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

SCOT

#2,193

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
12,000
About
1 in 25,169
This common or more
78.9%
Who bears it

Of the 12,000 people named Scot, 93.1% reported their origin as White, 2.4% as two or more races and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are male (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Scot peaked in 1970, when 633 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19402025
Peak year
1970
Births that year
633
In 2025*
6 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 13,732 babies have been given the name since 1940. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Scot by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #748. The largest share of babies named Scot, 45.6%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1940s#3,966151
1950s#9762,774
1960s#7485,250
1970s#9563,450
1980s#1,9771,193
1990s#3,837587
2000s#9,851207
2010s#17,44994
2020s#24,43526
Silent Generation 1928–450.3%
Baby boom 1946–6439.8%
Generation X 1965–8045.6%
Millennials 1981–9611%
Generation Z 1997–122.8%
2013 and later0.6%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Scot is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Scot has been most common in Hawaii (3.2×), Iowa (2.4×), and Wisconsin (2.3×), and least common in North Carolina (0.18×).

10,852 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Scot

#2,191 Nasir · 12,030#2,192 Barbra · 12,020#2,194 Bert · 11,997#2,194 Christiana · 11,997

Spelled almost the same

2 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Scot, most common first.

#59 Scott · 655,952#4,154 Scout · 4,622

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