Scott

Where Scott comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Scott.

  • 1 syllable
Scott through the years
  1. 1868
    Scott Joplin born
    American composer, musician, pianist
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #200 among boys, with 60 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1968
    Scott Morrison born
    Prime Minister of Australia from 2018 to 2022
  4. 1971
    Peak, #10
    30,901 babies named Scott, the most in any year.
  5. 1977
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #27.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Scott Morrison · Prime Minister of Australia from 2018 to 2022, born 1968
  • Scott Joplin · American composer, musician, pianist, 1868–1917
  • Scott McTominay · Scottish association football player, born 1996
  • Scott Parker · English association football manager and former player, born 1980
  • Scott Carpenter · American test pilot, astronaut and aquanaut, 1925–2013

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.