girls:
304 births since 1937
#5412 (5th percentile)
boys:
18.8k births since 1915
#838 (82nd percentile)
overall:
19.1k births since 1915
#1856 (76th percentile)
The name Scotty is the #1,856 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 19,109 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 76.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 76.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #838 (81.7% percentile) for all time with 18,805 births since 1915. For girls, it ranks #5,412 (5.3% percentile) for all time with 304 births since 1937.
Scotty first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for boys and 1937 for girls). Birth data for Scotty is available in 108 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023 (108 years for boys and 41 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Scotty has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 84.5% of babies named Scotty were boys.
For boys, Scotty reached its peak popularity in 1971, achieving the 69.1% percentile (ranked #207) with 615 births per million. The name was most common in 1971, with 615 births per million (ranked 69.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Scotty ranks #845 for boys (7.3% percentile) with 39 births per million, which is 6.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Scotty reached its peak popularity in 1971, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #759) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Scotty ranks #939 for girls (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 83.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Scotty".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Scotty is pronounced as SKAH-tee, which has 2 syllables.
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