Meaning not yet researched.
Scot: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #311 in 1970.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #311 in 1970; #11,771 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Scot in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,771 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1970, at #311.
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Scot: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 boys in 2025. Peak: #311 in 1970 · most boys in one year: 633 (1970).
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Scot, making it the 11,771st most common boys’ name of the year, up 2,132 places from #13,903 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 5 boys named Scot in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #311, reached in 1970. That year also had the most boys given the name: 633. For comparison, it was #7,942 in 2015 and #902 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Scot in 83 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1940 with 7 babies. In all, 13,732 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 5,250 babies named Scot.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 50 US boys were named Scot; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 8. In 2025 that was about 1 in 284,679 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Scott (777,605 babies since 1880) and Scout (7,221 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Scot in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 6 | #11,771 |
| 2024 | — | — | 5 | #13,903 |
| 2023 | — | — | 8 | #9,601 |
| 2022 | — | — | 7 | #10,664 |
| 2019 | — | — | 6 | #11,901 |
| 2018 | — | — | 5 | #13,767 |
| 2017 | — | — | 5 | #13,912 |
| 2016 | — | — | 8 | #9,526 |
| 2015 | — | — | 10 | #7,942 |
| 2014 | — | — | 13 | #6,568 |
| 2013 | — | — | 11 | #7,467 |
| 2012 | — | — | 10 | #8,038 |
| 2011 | — | — | 8 | #9,455 |
| 2010 | — | — | 18 | #5,209 |
| 2009 | — | — | 17 | #5,510 |
| 2008 | — | — | 15 | #6,010 |
| 2007 | — | — | 23 | #4,348 |
| 2006 | — | — | 18 | #5,033 |
| 2005 | — | — | 16 | #5,239 |
| 2004 | — | — | 21 | #4,241 |
| 2003 | — | — | 22 | #3,955 |
| 2002 | — | — | 23 | #3,763 |
| 2001 | — | — | 24 | #3,600 |
| 2000 | — | — | 28 | #3,137 |
| 1999 | — | — | 46 | #2,092 |
| 1998 | — | — | 42 | #2,193 |
| 1997 | — | — | 47 | #1,957 |
| 1996 | — | — | 42 | #2,070 |
| 1995 | — | — | 47 | #1,860 |
| 1994 | — | — | 55 | #1,659 |
| 1993 | — | — | 65 | #1,458 |
| 1992 | — | — | 83 | #1,243 |
| 1991 | — | — | 76 | #1,294 |
| 1990 | — | — | 84 | #1,195 |
| 1989 | — | — | 94 | #1,090 |
| 1988 | — | — | 91 | #1,037 |
| 1987 | — | — | 113 | #883 |
| 1986 | — | — | 118 | #834 |
| 1985 | — | — | 102 | #900 |
| 1984 | — | — | 123 | #783 |
| 1983 | — | — | 108 | #842 |
| 1982 | — | — | 143 | #728 |
| 1981 | — | — | 163 | #678 |
| 1980 | — | — | 138 | #748 |
| 1979 | — | — | 185 | #632 |
| 1978 | — | — | 183 | #616 |
| 1977 | — | — | 201 | #598 |
| 1976 | — | — | 236 | #525 |
| 1975 | — | — | 331 | #434 |
| 1974 | — | — | 324 | #440 |
| 1973 | — | — | 344 | #423 |
| 1972 | — | — | 437 | #375 |
| 1971 | — | — | 576 | #324 |
| 1970 | — | — | 633 | #311 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,282 | 588 | #316 |
| 1968 | — | — | 555 | #322 |
| 1967 | — | — | 510 | #333 |
| 1966 | — | — | 500 | #337 |
| 1965 | — | — | 515 | #333 |
| 1964 | — | — | 569 | #329 |
| 1963 | — | — | 506 | #342 |
| 1962 | — | — | 537 | #337 |
| 1961 | — | — | 463 | #369 |
| 1960 | — | — | 501 | #348 |
| 1959 | 5 | #7,042 | 524 | #338 |
| 1958 | — | — | 562 | #325 |
| 1957 | — | — | 457 | #356 |
| 1956 | — | — | 391 | #379 |
| 1955 | — | — | 270 | #452 |
| 1954 | — | — | 214 | #498 |
| 1953 | — | — | 121 | #652 |
| 1952 | — | — | 99 | #708 |
| 1951 | — | — | 73 | #827 |
| 1950 | — | — | 58 | #902 |
| 1949 | — | — | 41 | #1,109 |
| 1948 | — | — | 32 | #1,294 |
| 1947 | — | — | 24 | #1,551 |
| 1946 | — | — | 13 | #2,129 |
| 1945 | — | — | 10 | #2,376 |
| 1944 | — | — | 10 | #2,448 |
| 1943 | — | — | 9 | #2,711 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,933 |
| 1940 | — | — | 7 | #3,092 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).