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Usage
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Icelandic
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Origin and Meaning
English and Scottish transferred use of the surname originated as a byname for someone from Scotland or, within Scotland itself, a member of the Gaelic-speaking people who originally came from Ireland [1] [2] [3] [4]
The meaning of the tribal name is unknown [5]
Related Names
Male
Scottsson
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Female
Scottsdóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Scott
|
Genitive: |
Scotts
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Scott
|
Genitive: |
Scotin / Scottin
|
Partitive: |
Scottia
|
- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Scott
|
Accusative: |
Scott
|
Dative: |
Scotti
|
Genitive: |
Scotts
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Scott
|
Genitive: |
Scotts
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Scott
|
Genitive: |
Scotts
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Gabriel Scott Jensen (8 March 1874 – 9 July 1958), Norwegian poet, novelist, playwright and children's writer
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 14 people were named Scott (percentage of first or only given name: 43 %) [8]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[9] |
|
532 |
1085 |
5 |
23 |
527 |
1062 |
Denmark[10] |
|
293 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
293 |
n.a. |
Finland[11] |
|
n.a. |
525 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
525 |
Iceland[12] |
|
16 |
27 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[13] |
|
0 |
4 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[14] |
|
608 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
608 |
n.a. |
#: count of main first name only |
&: count of both main and additional first names |
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [9][10][14][11]
References
- ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ A. D. Mills: Oxford Dictionary of British Place Names (2003)
- ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no