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Scott
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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
| Schot | ♂ |   |
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| Schott | ♂ |  |
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| Scott | ♂ |   |
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| Skott | ♂ | |
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Patronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Scottsson |
|
Female
| Scottsdóttir |
|
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
- Norway: 1839 (Melhus, Sør-Trøndelag) [4]
- Sweden: 1894 (born in the USA) [6]
- Denmark: 20th century [3]
- Iceland: Officially approved as a given name on 30 November 2022 [7]
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
Name Count per Country (What's this?)
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| Country | Commonness
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. |
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Recent Statistics Trend
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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 Digi- ja Väestötietovirasto, Digital and Population Data Services Agency, https://nimipalvelu.dvv.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