Scott comes from an English surname that referred to a person from Scotland or a person who spoke Scottish Gaelic. The word developed from the Latin ‘Scoti’, meaning ‘Gaelic speaker’.
Scott is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Scott isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Scott ranks 458. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Scott. In total, there are currently 767,837 people – children, adults and seniors – named Scott living in the United States, which is approximately 0.23 % of the entire population.
Scott comes from an English surname that referred to a person from Scotland or a person who spoke Scottish Gaelic. The word developed from the Latin ‘Scoti’, meaning ‘Gaelic speaker’.
This strong sounding name ... was particularly popular in the U.S. around 1970 and was also given to girls at the time.
The name Scott belongs to the USA like the Constitution, baseball and the White House. Why? Well, quite simply, Scott is one of only 442 boys’ names that have been given in the U.S. every year since official name statistics began in 1880. However, of course, the name has not been equally widespread in all 143 years – it was most popular far back in the last century: In 1971, Scott was one of the top 10 most popular baby boy names in the entire United States - ranking #10 on our SmartGenius baby name charts.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Scott was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 1971, when the name Scott was at the height of its popularity, 31,051 newborns were named Scott by their parents - in 2022, by contrast, the name was given only 484 times and Scott ranked #560 on our list of the most popular boys' names.
Wherever you go, wherever you live – there’s a good chance to meet Scott. Because: There are men and boys named Scott in every state in the USA. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the nearly 50,000 different male first names that occur in the USA, just 386 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Scott is definitely something very special. In some regions it even makes it into the top 100 of the most popular male first names, for example in Minnesota, where Scott ranks on position 19. The greatest chance of meeting Scott, however, is in New Hampshire, where one in 108 boys and men bears this beautiful name – that is far above average – in the entire USA it is only one in 218 men and boys and in Mississippi, where the name is least represented in relation to the population, you even have to ask an average of 679 men and boys for their name before you once get Scott as an answer.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. Because: 5.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.
With five letters, the name Scott is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that with 5.9% of all boys' names that begin with an S, this first letter is much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the boys’ names starting with S is Steven.
If your name is Scott and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Scott, you can simply say:
Sun
Cat
Orange
Tiger
Tiger
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Scott
Scott
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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T
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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C
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Scott sounds like this:
