Given name & surname
Scot
“a man from Scotland”
Scot is a variant of Scott. One English interpretation is “a man from Scotland.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Scot is a variant of Scott. One English interpretation is “a man from Scotland.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Scot is a variant of Scott. An origin associated with Scott is English.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Middle English Scot, from Old English Sċottas (“people from Ireland, Irishmen”), from Late Latin Scōttī.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1940. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Scot through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 13,732
- 13,721 boys · 11 girls
- Most popular year
- 1970
- 633 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,771 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,771 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 633 in 1970. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 12,000 as a first name in 2020; a sample rank of No. 26,074 among surnames in 1990.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Scot
- Scot GemmillScottish footballer (born 1971)
- Scot PollardAmerican basketball player and reality television contestantborn 1975
- Scot SymonScottish footballer and manager (1911–1985)
- Scot BennettEnglish association football player (born 1990)
- Scot Armstrongscreenwriterborn 1970
- Scot ShieldsAmerican baseball playerborn 1975
- Scot CooganAmerican drummerborn 1971
- Scot BreithauptAmerican bicycle motocross racer (1957-2015)
- Scot McFadyenCanadian film director and producerborn 1901
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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