Scotty
The boy's name Scotty has been in the national records since 1915, with 19,389 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,393rd. About 16,000 Scottys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 51.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Scotty boys named Scotty
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 19,389
- Estimated living today
- 16,000
- Median age today
- 51
- Peak year
- 1971
- Best rank
- 210th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,393rd
- First recorded
- 1915
- Girls / boys
- 359 / 19,030
How old the living Scottys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 19,389 babies given the name since 1915, about 16,000 are alive — 85 in every hundred. Roughly 1,100 of them are children and 1,800 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1974 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Scottys
- Scotty Moore (1931–2016)American guitarist
- Scotty McCreery (born 1993)American country music singer
- Scotty Bowman (born 1933)Canadian ice hockey coach
- Scotty James (born 1994)Australian snowboarder
- Scotty Nguyen (born 1962)American poker player
- Scotty 2 Hotty (born 1973)American professional wrestler
- Scotty Lago (born 1987)snowboarder
- Scotty Pippen Jr. (born 2000)American basketball player
People named Scotty with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Scotty is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Scotty is most concentrated in Arkansas (4.7×), Kentucky (4.4×), Tennessee (4.2×), Alabama (3.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1971
The most popular boys’ names the year Scotty peaked:
Scotty elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Scotty | 600 | 430th |
| Belgium boys | Scotty | 16 | 932nd |
| England and Wales boys | Scotty | 3 | 4,527th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Scotty against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.