Scott
Celtic at root: the Latin Scotti named the Gaelic speakers who crossed from Ireland to the north of Britain, the land that took their name. Barely 200 men in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one.
Scott Pronunciation
Scott is pronounced STSOTT (/st͡sɔtt/).
What Scott means
Where Scott comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Scott began as a name for a whole people. In the Latin of early medieval writers, Scotti meant the Gaelic speakers who sailed from Ireland to the north of Britain, into the country that would borrow their name. The root is Celtic. For centuries the word worked as a surname, a way of saying where a family came from.
The meaning stays close to that beginning: from Scotland, or in the older sense, a Gaelic speaker. It is a geographic name at bottom, one that points at a place before it points at a child.
In a Polish class register, Scott stands out among the Piotrs and Jakubs, an English import with a Celtic spine. There is no Polish diminutive waiting for it, and no imieniny fixed by long habit. What it offers instead is its meaning: mieszkaniec Szkocji, a person from Scotland.
How many people are named Scott
1 in 97471 men in Poland is named Scott. 219 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2107 among male names.
Scott's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Scott as a middle name
Scott is a first name for 219 men in Poland and a middle name for another 268, a 45/55 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 434th, between Anastazy (268) and Emre (267).
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#432 Lukasz269
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#433 Anastazy268
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#434 Scott268
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#435 Emre267
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#436 Modest265