Highest ever

Scottie

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#126
2,228 girls
2015
#3,586
rank
1950
#2,644
rank

Scottie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,228 in 2025. Its best rank was #126 in 2025.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 89% of babies named Scottie in 2025 were girls.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#126 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.

Babies in 2025
2,490
Since 1880
17,974
Years on record
119

Babies named Scottie, every year since 1880

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Girls Boys

Scottie: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,228 girls in 2025. Peak: #126 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 2,228 (2025).

About the name Scottie

In 2025, 2,228 US girls were named Scottie, making it the 126th most common girls’ name of the year, up 76 places from #202 in 2024. That is 709 more than the 1,519 girls named Scottie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #126, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,228. For comparison, it was #3,586 in 2015 and #2,644 in 1950.

In 2025, 262 US boys were named Scottie, making it the 909th most common boys’ name of the year, up 283 places from #1,192 in 2024. That is 89 more than the 173 boys named Scottie in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #307, reached in 1971. That year also had the most boys given the name: 634. For comparison, it was #5,253 in 2015 and #1,165 in 1950.

Social Security card records list Scottie in 119 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1885 with 6 babies. In all, 17,974 US babies have been given the name, 38% of them girls and 62% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 5,504 babies named Scottie.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,201 US girls were named Scottie; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 2,228. In 2025 that was about 1 in 721 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Scottie ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #16 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 18 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Scott (777,605 babies since 1880) and Scotty (19,389 babies since 1880).

Meaning

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.

Related spellings

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.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Scottie in the open dataset we use.

Scottie is listed as a nickname for Scott.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Scottie by state, 2025

US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 8 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
Utah113#16#704
North Dakota21#25—
Wyoming8#42—
Nebraska33#44—
Idaho35#47—
Oklahoma54#49—
Montana16#49—
South Dakota16#49—
Kansas45#53—
Missouri75#65—
Kentucky55#68—
Iowa38#73—
Alabama51#80—
Arizona70#81—
Arkansas32#82—
Indiana66#95—
Minnesota54#96—
Tennessee74#99—
Wisconsin44#114—
Michigan70#115—
Georgia83#116—
Ohio90#118—
Colorado45#121—
North Carolina82#123—
Texas255#124—
South Carolina35#128—
Washington52#128—
Louisiana32#133—
Illinois63#160—
Pennsylvania69#162—
Mississippi15#180—
Oregon21#180—
Florida85#218—
Nevada12#229—
New Mexico7#246—
New Jersey32#261—
Virginia32#262—
Connecticut13#266—
California117#280#2,964
New York58#294—
Maryland18#301—
Massachusetts18#333—
West Virginia5#363—

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
20252,228#126262#909
20241,519#202173#1,192
2023485#61665#2,216
2022293#92545#2,864
2021218#1,13229#3,803
2020166#1,33121#4,676
2019111#1,84125#4,213
201874#2,43332#3,507
201754#3,04520#4,905
201653#3,13227#3,970
201544#3,58618#5,253
201420#6,40718#5,225
201317#7,32527#3,843
201211#10,32323#4,364
20116#16,44727#3,875
20106#16,63124#4,214
200912#9,88134#3,320
20087#15,11936#3,210
20075#20,02531#3,496
20066#16,76536#3,075
2005——34#3,078
20048#12,54732#3,143
20039#11,17042#2,499
20026#15,06447#2,244
20017#13,21539#2,518
200013#7,95857#1,870
19998#11,18348#2,019
199812#7,93269#1,556
199714#6,76981#1,375
199613#7,05598#1,178
199515#6,19883#1,295
199413#7,003114#1,047
199316#5,89597#1,147
199213#6,970117#1,007
199115#6,184108#1,041
199017#5,489111#1,007
198923#4,22198#1,056
198813#6,19391#1,038
198724#3,717105#927
198617#4,692114#852
198515#5,036132#774
198416#4,685131#758
198310#6,613130#760
198222#3,738198#615
198113#5,512190#620
198015#4,925229#572
197912#5,681251#536
197811#5,880227#554
19778#7,416240#539
1976——278#473
197525#2,943352#412
197421#3,292377#400
197316#3,924420#375
197219#3,376435#376
197131#2,465634#307
197025#2,838405#401
196919#3,176399#398
196814#3,740393#392
196726#2,423366#399
196616#3,242395#384
196516#3,240237#497
196426#2,462235#511
196319#2,939168#606
196231#2,151176#590
196125#2,463139#665
196019#2,888123#708
195916#3,082100#765
195829#2,10994#770
195727#2,15690#794
195617#2,91362#952
195516#2,94865#929
195419#2,58270#886
195318#2,57949#1,044
195227#1,96948#1,054
195121#2,23662#899
195016#2,64439#1,165
194920#2,26530#1,344
194819#2,31940#1,141
194717#2,52151#1,012
194618#2,30132#1,255
194518#2,04836#1,101
194415#2,37727#1,309
194319#2,06433#1,207
194224#1,75229#1,311
194124#1,64320#1,581
194022#1,73531#1,225
193917#2,03123#1,421
193813#2,42823#1,433
193717#1,98630#1,227
193613#2,37126#1,318
193510#2,90219#1,646
193417#1,9889#2,717
193310#2,8409#2,706
193217#2,02120#1,640
19318#3,45010#2,622
19309#3,30313#2,277
19299#3,3569#2,940
192812#2,74615#2,139
192710#3,25518#1,944
192613#2,6927#3,656
192510#3,3299#3,115
192411#3,12010#2,991
192310#3,3269#3,135
192210#3,34317#2,022
192111#3,1257#3,814
192010#3,3099#3,174
191911#2,9786#4,099
19189#3,4797#3,658
191711#2,8539#2,914
191611#2,8045#4,422
191511#2,667——
191412#2,1086#3,210
191313#1,7506#2,754
19127#2,601——
19098#1,742——
19076#2,024——
19066#1,923——
19056#1,897——
18856#1,030——

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).