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The SCOT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 0 26074 0 0
United States (1880 census) 1,510 3815 0.003 30
Change since 1880 +N/A -22259 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 6 126713 0 0
United Kingdom 92 24359 0 2
Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Classification and Origin of SCOT

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the SCOT surname.

Ethnic distribution of SCOT in the USA

Sorry, we don't have any ethnic distribution data for SCOT.

SCOT is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of SCOT in historical publications

SCOTT. SCOT. This ranks among the most prevalent of British surnames, almost sixty coats of arms being assigned to it, while the London Directory shows about 200 traders in the metropolis so denominated. In records of early date, it is usually written Le Scot, implying a native of Scotland. Now, as the tendency of North Britons to ' come south ' is proverbial, we do not wonder at the commonness of the name in England ; but why many families who never lived out of Scotland should be called Scott, is not so readily explained. The Duke of Buccleuch, the head of the surname in that country, traces his pedigree to Richard le Scot, of Murdieston, co. Lanark, one of the Scottish barons, who swore fealty to our Edward I., 1296. The name exists in records of earlier date, but the claim set up by some zealous genealogists for a Norman extraction has no foundation. M. de Gerville remarks : — " It is somewhat curious tliat this Duke of Buccleuch seclvs for his name in Normaud), and pretends that the original appellation was VEscott!" Mem. Soc. Ant. Normandie, 1S25.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to SCOT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SCOT.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for SCOT

The following words are slight variants of SCOT that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.