Meaning not yet researched.
Scotland: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 90 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,093 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 88% of babies named Scotland in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,093 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Scotland: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 90 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,093 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 90 (2025).
In 2025, 90 US girls were named Scotland, making it the 2,093rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 78 places from #2,171 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 88 girls named Scotland in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,093, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 90. For comparison, it was #4,572 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 12 US boys were named Scotland, making it the 7,116th most common boys’ name of the year, down 979 places from #6,137 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 15 boys named Scotland in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #6,051, reached in 1992. The most boys given the name in a single year was 15, in 2024. For comparison, it was #7,436 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Scotland in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 5 babies. In all, 996 US babies have been given the name, 73% of them girls and 27% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 438 babies named Scotland.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 529 US girls were named Scotland; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 90. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,859 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Scotland ranked highest in Idaho in 2025, at #398 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Scotlynd, Scottland and Scottlynd are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Scotlynd (55), Scottland (33), Scottlynd (11).
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 Scotland in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | 6 | #398 | — |
| Utah | 6 | #694 | — |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,286 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,648 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,667 | — |
| Texas | 13 | #1,775 | — |
| California | 8 | #2,457 | #3,876 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 90 | #2,093 | 12 | #7,116 |
| 2024 | 88 | #2,171 | 15 | #6,137 |
| 2023 | 57 | #2,971 | 6 | #12,015 |
| 2022 | 50 | #3,268 | 10 | #8,202 |
| 2021 | 56 | #2,996 | 7 | #10,596 |
| 2020 | 41 | #3,670 | 6 | #11,787 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,989 | 6 | #11,902 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,835 | 11 | #7,535 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,565 | 7 | #10,586 |
| 2016 | 40 | #3,839 | 9 | #8,693 |
| 2015 | 31 | #4,572 | 11 | #7,436 |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,168 | 12 | #6,984 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,524 | 8 | #9,512 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,122 | — | — |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,446 | 5 | #13,994 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,705 | 6 | #11,940 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,705 | 11 | #7,609 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,421 | 8 | #9,710 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,201 | 6 | #12,109 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,252 | 10 | #7,901 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,089 | — | — |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,932 | 5 | #12,904 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,412 | 8 | #8,492 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,063 | 9 | #7,529 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,648 | 9 | #7,419 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,683 | 5 | #11,828 |
| 1999 | — | — | 8 | #7,748 |
| 1998 | — | — | 8 | #7,427 |
| 1997 | — | — | 5 | #10,541 |
| 1996 | — | — | 5 | #10,274 |
| 1995 | — | — | 6 | #8,698 |
| 1992 | — | — | 9 | #6,051 |
| 1990 | — | — | 7 | #7,048 |
| 1987 | — | — | 6 | #6,804 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #7,141 |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #6,118 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #6,182 |
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).