Scott Name Meaning, Origins & Popularity

Scott Forename

412^th

Most Common

name in the World

Approximately 1,673,906 people bear this name

Most prevalent in:

United States

Highest density in:

Scotland

Scott Forename Definition:

A Usage name, meaning: First signified a native of the Emerald isle, afterwards a native of the north country. It originated in a word meaning tattooing the body, a practice of the ancient Gaels.

Scott Forename Distribution

Place	Gender	Incidence	Frequency	Rank in Area
United States	100%	1,340,144	1:271	30
England	100%	90,779	1:613	140
Canada	100%	89,973	1:368	47
Australia	-	65,130	1:210	25
Scotland	100%	31,116	1:172	33
New Zealand	-	10,659	1:426	88
Sudan	-	5,751	1:6,574	968
Wales	100%	4,124	1:750	185
Thailand	100%	3,450	1:20,309	2,796
South Africa	100%	3,089	1:17,654	2,565
Ghana	100%	2,191	1:12,317	1,115
Angola	-	1,889	1:14,276	1,436
China	-	1,583	1:862,954	32,352
Nigeria	100%	1,267	1:140,146	6,953
Poland	100%	1,178	1:32,281	999
Germany	100%	1,067	1:90,607	1,996
Japan	-	1,038	1:123,301	5,092
Netherlands	100%	846	1:19,979	1,925
Bangladesh	-	825	1:193,287	10,074
Ireland	93%	782	1:5,938	543
Sri Lanka	-	715	1:29,090	3,562
Malawi	100%	698	1:24,516	2,075
Syria	-	643	1:30,025	1,327
Brazil	100%	616	1:347,786	12,867
Philippines	99%	571	1:185,656	8,487
Saudi Arabia	-	525	1:58,691	6,867
France	100%	512	1:129,825	2,539
Northern Ireland	93%	509	1:3,621	471
Egypt	84%	499	1:184,170	7,018
Iraq	100%	430	1:81,437	2,195
Cameroon	100%	414	1:52,199	3,366
South Korea	-	407	1:13,623	1,526
Kenya	100%	372	1:124,481	6,036
Malaysia	100%	342	1:89,035	6,454
Bahamas	-	341	1:1,171	292
Singapore	100%	322	1:19,525	3,606
Jordan	99%	308	1:28,658	1,234
Sweden	100%	298	1:33,080	1,992
DR Congo	94%	281	1:262,732	10,825
Hong Kong	-	280	1:27,688	2,344
India	98%	269	1:4,516,275	178,862
Switzerland	100%	266	1:30,878	1,739
Fiji	-	259	1:3,445	924
Norway	100%	236	1:21,747	1,268
Oman	-	226	1:18,180	1,608
Tonga	-	226	1:475	106
Spain	100%	213	1:218,451	4,262
Papua New Guinea	94%	207	1:39,383	3,863
Gabon	100%	200	1:9,417	1,573
Liberia	90%	195	1:22,626	1,529
Kuwait	-	190	1:19,922	2,136
Vanuatu	-	186	1:1,407	400
Samoa	-	183	1:1,067	329
Dominican Republic	-	173	1:60,296	3,762
Denmark	-	172	1:32,846	1,508
Zimbabwe	98%	170	1:90,728	6,733
Belgium	100%	169	1:67,988	2,853
Zambia	-	165	1:96,090	4,639
Morocco	-	164	1:209,443	5,367
Trinidad and Tobago	100%	159	1:8,562	1,315
Bermuda	-	154	1:421	52
Mexico	100%	142	1:874,257	7,569
Guam	-	140	1:1,147	256
Taiwan	78%	139	1:171,005	16,297
Portugal	-	138	1:75,441	2,229
Guernsey	-	135	1:469	122
Algeria	-	123	1:310,380	3,810
Italy	98%	121	1:504,645	5,376
Israel	96%	120	1:70,024	3,639
United States Virgin Islands	-	115	1:954	188
Jersey	100%	100	1:1,000	215
Haiti	100%	98	1:109,459	6,021
Afghanistan	100%	82	1:397,848	7,399
Malta	-	80	1:5,367	705
Jamaica	-	78	1:36,964	2,343
Micronesia	-	76	1:1,401	231
Russia	94%	73	1:1,975,804	13,396
Mongolia	-	67	1:43,803	3,867
United Arab Emirates	-	67	1:106,746	8,608
Indonesia	-	66	1:3,908,540	166,311
Qatar	100%	66	1:35,903	4,803
Solomon Islands	100%	66	1:8,802	916
Palestine	100%	65	1:70,001	1,663
Bahrain	-	59	1:22,859	3,234
Finland	100%	59	1:92,935	2,306
Namibia	-	55	1:43,712	2,849
Greece	100%	53	1:206,312	4,151
Guatemala	100%	53	1:303,933	3,600
American Samoa	-	52	1:1,074	130
Botswana	-	47	1:46,478	4,592
Panama	100%	46	1:84,925	4,484
Peru	100%	46	1:691,119	10,821
Vietnam	-	46	1:2,013,546	3,155
Gibraltar	-	45	1:759	158
Barbados	-	39	1:7,430	922
Cayman Islands	100%	39	1:1,572	368
Costa Rica	100%	38	1:125,472	3,625
Austria	100%	35	1:243,263	3,286
Uganda	94%	30	1:1,365,231	20,932
Belize	100%	29	1:12,218	1,691
Estonia	100%	29	1:45,358	2,735
Nicaragua	100%	28	1:214,941	5,315
Antigua and Barbuda	-	26	1:3,823	748
Czechia	100%	26	1:409,852	2,291
Lebanon	72%	26	1:216,445	4,451
Myanmar	-	25	1:2,077,931	882
Venezuela	100%	24	1:1,258,412	25,329
Marshall Islands	100%	22	1:2,329	351
Aruba	-	21	1:4,942	942
Hungary	100%	21	1:466,275	1,759
Turks and Caicos Islands	-	21	1:1,653	420
Tanzania	100%	20	1:2,639,416	22,786
Cambodia	100%	19	1:856,491	14,474
Honduras	100%	19	1:464,077	7,312
Grenada	100%	18	1:6,007	933
Iran	-	18	1:4,360,937	18,054
New Caledonia	100%	17	1:15,892	1,309
Northern Mariana Islands	-	17	1:3,216	586
Pakistan	83%	17	1:11,432,805	75,526
Chile	94%	15	1:1,173,814	9,993
Ecuador	-	15	1:1,181,795	8,518
Guyana	100%	15	1:50,884	4,749
Kazakhstan	100%	15	1:1,183,123	11,783
Nauru	100%	15	1:795	113
Lesotho	100%	14	1:145,714	11,276
Puerto Rico	-	14	1:253,593	2,813
Isle of Man	100%	13	1:6,540	198
Luxembourg	100%	13	1:43,388	1,811
Macau	-	12	1:50,684	561
Saint Kitts and Nevis	-	11	1:4,987	869
Iceland	-	10	1:36,602	2,190
Laos	-	10	1:658,686	494
Madagascar	-	9	1:2,625,490	3,077
Mozambique	-	9	1:3,027,040	2,336
Norfolk Island	-	9	1:258	46
Rwanda	-	9	1:1,263,493	1,939
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	100%	9	1:12,398	1,723
Sierra Leone	-	9	1:787,629	675
Swaziland	-	9	1:144,464	1,815
Benin	-	8	1:1,321,980	30,116
Georgia	100%	8	1:467,308	8,891
Monaco	100%	8	1:4,808	802
Turkey	100%	8	1:9,725,214	31,896
Greenland	-	7	1:8,053	908
Saint Lucia	100%	7	1:25,402	2,434
Tunisia	-	6	1:112,817	6,145
Ukraine	-	6	1:7,583,318	11,559
Bolivia	-	5	1:2,120,281	4,345
Curaçao	-	5	1:31,161	859
Nepal	-	5	1:5,697,470	55,717
Anguilla	100%	4	1:3,314	681
Argentina	100%	4	1:10,693,311	19,797
Brunei	-	4	1:104,892	1,566
Chad	-	4	1:3,399,600	8,891
El Salvador	-	4	1:1,585,446	8,153
Ethiopia	100%	4	1:24,390,033	19,296
Gambia	-	4	1:481,649	818
Kyrgyzstan	-	4	1:1,493,319	26,894
Mali	-	4	1:4,244,439	5,329
Romania	-	4	1:5,012,994	31,756
Uzbekistan	100%	4	1:7,696,610	11,277
Armenia	-	3	1:972,918	8,284
Azerbaijan	100%	3	1:3,214,315	27,427
Cook Islands	-	3	1:6,051	772
Falkland Islands	-	3	1:1,047	226
North Macedonia	-	3	1:696,919	10,674
Serbia	-	3	1:2,381,907	7,319
Slovakia	100%	3	1:1,770,021	5,487
Uruguay	-	3	1:1,142,546	10,015
Bulgaria	-	2	1:3,495,195	19,668
Croatia	-	2	1:2,108,538	15,895
Ivory Coast	-	2	1:11,537,966	95,271
Maldives	-	2	1:216,952	3,781
Yemen	-	2	1:13,148,376	10,677
Albania	100%	1	1:3,046,570	49,159
Andorra	-	1	1:82,887	1,356
Belarus	-	1	1:9,482,384	20,892
Bosnia and Herzegovina	-	1	1:3,524,458	8,651
British Virgin Islands	-	1	1:31,250	1,787
Burkina Faso	-	1	1:18,379,469	100,219
Burundi	-	1	1:9,906,559	2,558
Cape Verde	-	1	1:529,151	6,361
Colombia	-	1	1:47,778,926	95,497
Congo	100%	1	1:5,009,205	37,978
Cuba	-	1	1:11,506,552	13,531
Cyprus	-	1	1:871,076	5,368
Djibouti	-	1	1:915,664	2,132
Dominica	-	1	1:75,471	1,341
East Timor	-	1	1:1,218,375	811
Faroe Islands	100%	1	1:49,127	2,467
Guinea-Bissau	-	1	1:1,728,218	422
Latvia	-	1	1:2,015,645	6,531
Libya	-	1	1:6,221,309	3,060
Lithuania	-	1	1:2,951,882	5,377
Mauritania	-	1	1:4,095,239	27,701
Mauritius	-	1	1:1,297,784	13,721
Moldova	-	1	1:3,561,139	8,690
Palau	-	1	1:21,711	239
Paraguay	100%	1	1:7,236,805	16,549
Saint Martin	-	1	1:35,746	277
Senegal	-	1	1:14,581,356	34,505
Seychelles	-	1	1:92,670	1,891
Slovenia	-	1	1:2,458,758	6,723
Somalia	-	1	1:13,525,867	7,760
Togo	-	1	1:7,239,239	8,047
Turkmenistan	-	1	1:5,472,870	3,925

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Scott (854,691) may also be a surname.

Scott Forename Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? ^{meaning and history}

A Usage name, meaning: First signified a native of the Emerald isle, afterwards a native of the north country. It originated in a word meaning tattooing the body, a practice of the ancient Gaels.

— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead

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Scott Forename Popularity

Scott Demographics

Scott Political Affiliation
in United States

Sample size: 260,297 (2014)

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Phonetically Similar Names

Forename	Similarity	Worldwide Incidence	Prevalency
Scotte	91	198	/
Jscott	91	87	/
Scotts	91	74	/
Schott	91	71	/
Sscott	91	27	/
Scoott	91	18	/
Scottt	91	17	/
Hscott	91	9	/
Sccott	91	8	/
Scostt	91	7	/
Scotth	91	7	/
Scottp	91	4	/
Scsott	91	4	/
Sckott	91	2	/
Scottd	91	2	/
Scoutt	91	2	/
Skcott	91	1	/
Scoytt	91	1	/
Scodtt	91	1	/
Scoett	91	1	/
Scoitt	91	1	/
Zscott	91	1	/
Scot	89	28,243	/
Cott	89	99	/
Sott	89	97	/
Sscotts	83	3	/
Schkott	83	1	/
Scotths	83	1	/
Scosdtt	83	1	/
Scott'e	83	1	/
Xxscott	83	1	/
Zzscott	83	1	/
Scout	80	578	/
Scoth	80	291	/
Skott	80	213	/
Scoot	80	81	/
Scots	80	28	/
Scote	80	14	/
Sccot	80	13	/
Scatt	80	8	/
Schot	80	8	/
Dcott	80	8	/
Scutt	80	7	/
Sckot	80	4	/
Tcott	80	4	/
Soott	80	3	/
Scoit	80	3	/
Zcott	80	3	/
Jscot	80	3	/
Coitt	80	2	/
Sscot	80	1	/
Suott	80	1	/
Soitt	80	1	/
Sgott	80	1	/
Scoet	80	1	/
Scotp	80	1	/
Sdcot	80	1	/
Xcott	80	1	/
Zsott	80	1	/
Scgot	80	1	/
Sqcot	80	1	/
Sot	75	5,955	/
Cot	75	1,823	/
Sco	75	184	/
Scotch	73	1,772	/
Scouts	73	31	/
Scoots	73	11	/
Schutt	73	7	/
Skotte	73	4	/
Scoote	73	3	/
Scoths	73	3	/
Scotsh	73	3	/
Schoot	73	2	/
Scooth	73	2	/
Schatt	73	2	/
Sothth	73	1	/
Shchot	73	1	/
Schodt	73	1	/
Scoute	73	1	/
Scoutz	73	1	/
Scutte	73	1	/
Scohte	73	1	/
Scothe	73	1	/
Schoth	73	1	/
Soot	67	692	/
Suot	67	638	/
Skot	67	548	/
Satt	67	457	/
Soit	67	273	/
Catt	67	220	/
Soth	67	204	/
Coyt	67	195	/
Coot	67	99	/
Jott	67	64	/
Scoh	67	37	/
Scod	67	33	/
Scat	67	24	/
Soht	67	22	/
Scoy	67	21	/
Scut	67	17	/
Scop	67	9	/
Scoo	67	8	/
Scou	67	7	/
Codt	67	6	/
Shco	67	5	/
Scootch	67	5	/
Scoa	67	4	/
Zott	67	4	/
Zsot	67	3	/
Scoi	67	3	/
Scoz	67	3	/
Scos	67	2	/
Sodt	67	2	/
Sqot	67	2	/
Sotë	67	2	/
Jsco	67	1	/
Coht	67	1	/
Scko	67	1	/
Scohiet	67	1	/
Hsco	67	1	/
Hsot	67	1	/
Cuot	67	1	/

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