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Scott

Pronounced /skɒt/

Rank in 2024
#565
Born in 2024
517
Peak year
1971 · #10
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024

1880 to 2024

Steady
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 517 boys were named Scott, about 1 in every 3,318.
  • It peaked in 1971 with 30,902 babies, ranked #10.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 774,451 boys have been named Scott since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Scott per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0.2
    Greatest
  2. 0.3
    Silent
  3. 6.8
    Boomers
  4. 12.5
    Gen X
  5. 4.4
    Millennials
  6. 0.9
    Gen Z
  7. 0.3
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 3,149 babies, 0.19 per 1,000. Silent: 5,585 babies, 0.27 per 1,000. Boomers: 255,864 babies, 6.81 per 1,000. Gen X: 339,526 babies, 12.48 per 1,000. Millennials: 134,744 babies, 4.43 per 1,000. Gen Z: 27,817 babies, 0.89 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 6,863 babies, 0.32 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

  • (countable) A male given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/skɒt/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Scott, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Other spellings

  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Scout

    Rank
    #1,476
    Born '24
    122
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 20222024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Scot

    Rank
    #12,692
    Born '24
    5
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19702024