Meaning and history
From an English and Scottish surname that denoted a person from Scotland or a speaker of Scottish Gaelic, Scott derives from Latin Scoti meaning “Gael, Gaelic speaker,” though its ultimate origin is uncertain.
20062006: 1,365 births, rank #253
2007: 1,252 births, rank #274
2008: 1,034 births, rank #321
2009: 920 births, rank #342
2010: 873 births, rank #351
20112011: 804 births, rank #370
2012: 778 births, rank #382
2013: 685 births, rank #428
2014: 727 births, rank #422
2015: 668 births, rank #454
20162016: 658 births, rank #464
2017: 607 births, rank #482
2018: 549 births, rank #517
2019: 544 births, rank #524
2020: 498 births, rank #562
20212021: 457 births, rank #609
2022: 487 births, rank #588
2023: 474 births, rank #598
2024: 518 births, rank #565
20252025: 561 births, rank #534
Scott rose from #567 to #534 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1971, with 30,901 births.