Popularity of the last name by country
Russian Federation
- Moscow (118)
- Leningrad (96)
- Amur (6)
- Perm (5)
- Primorsky (5)
- Bashkortostan (3)
- Irkutsk (2)
- Orenburg (2)
- Oryol (2)
- Samara (2)
- Karelia (1)
- Kaliningrad (1)
- Komi Republic (1)
- Mari El Republic (1)
- Novosibirsk (1)
- Tatarstan (1)
- Tula (1)
- Vladimir (1)
All countries
- United Kingdom (837,183)
- United States (484,780)
- Ireland (64,579)
- New Zealand (50,039)
- Australia (48,263)
- Canada (31,035)
- France (29,366)
- Unknown country (14,091)
- Netherlands (5,753)
- Germany (2,914)
- Italy (2,907)
- Switzerland (2,469)
- Belgium (1,881)
- India (1,661)
- Spain (1,324)
- Mexico (1,184)
- Sweden (1,054)
- South Africa (774)
- Colombia (596)
- Indonesia (564)
- Denmark (527)
- Russian Federation (519)
- Jamaica (482)
- China (445)
- Argentina (386)
- Poland (366)
- Turkey (354)
- Greece (348)
- Portugal (347)
- Norway (329)
- Egypt (328)
- Algeria (311)
- Austria (299)
- Cuba (250)
- Paraguay (226)
- Malta (212)
- Trinidad and Tobago (199)
- Hungary (189)
- Gibraltar (175)
- Brazil (173)
Origine of last name
SCOTT : 1: English Scottish and Irish (Down): habitational and ethnic name from Middle English Scot ‘man from Scotland’. There is no evidence that the surname denoted either of the earlier senses of Scot as ‘(Gaelic-speaking) Irishman’ or ‘man from Alba’ the Gaelic-speaking region of Scotland north of the river Forth. This surname is also very common among African Americans.2: English and Scottish: from the rare Middle English personal name Scot (Old English Scott possibly also Old Norse Skotr) only certainly attested in northern England.3: English: variant of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Scutt">Scutt</a>.
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