Scott

• (male given names): Scot, Scottie, Scotty

• IPA^(key): /skɒt/

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• Rhymes: -ɒt
• Homophones: scot, Scot

Scott (countable and uncountable, plural Scotts)

1. (countable) An English ethnic surname transferred from the nickname for someone with Scottish ancestry.
   • 2020 September 30, Ashley Schwartz-Lavares and Steve Osunsami, “Black Americans are leaving their homes to start their own all-Black communities”, in ABC News‎^[1]:

     Renee Walters and Ashley Scott started the campaign to buy Freedom after Walters saw a viral post about buying a town “for the price of a New York apartment.”

2. (countable) A male given name transferred from the surname.
   • 2025 August 25, Robert Reich, “Why Trump built a staff of incompetent sycophants”, in The Guardian‎^[2], archived from the original on 25 August 2025:

     Then there’s Billy Long, a former auctioneer and Republican congressman who Trump nominated and was confirmed less than two months ago to head the Internal Revenue Service, with “little background in tax policy beyond promoting a fraud-riddled tax credit”. Long has already been fired after clashing with the treasury secretary, Scott Bessent. Long was the sixth person to head the IRS this year.

3. A placename:
   1. A municipality of La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
   2. A town in the Rural Municipality of Tramping Lake, No. 380, Saskatchewan, Canada.
   3. A number of places in the United States:
      1. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Lonoke County and Pulaski County, Arkansas.
      2. An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Georgia.
      3. A small unincorporated community in Van Buren Township, LaGrange County, Indiana.
      4. A city in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana.
      5. An unincorporated community in Cole County, Missouri.
      6. A town in Cortland County, New York.
      7. A village in Paulding County and Van Wert County, Ohio.
      8. A former unincorporated community in Wood County, West Virginia.
      9. A town in Brown County, Wisconsin.
      10. A small town in Burnett County, Wisconsin.
      11. A small town in Columbia County, Wisconsin.
      12. A small town in Crawford County, Wisconsin.
      13. A town in Lincoln County, Wisconsin.
      14. A small town in Monroe County, Wisconsin.
      15. A town in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin.
      16. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Scott Township.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Scott is the 36^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 439,530 individuals. Scott is most common among White (60.2%) and Black/African American (32.9%) individuals.

Scott (plural Scotts)

1. (philately, US, Canada) The Scott catalogue of postage stamps.

Scott

1. Alternative form of great Scott.
   • 1903, Mark Twain, The $30,000 Bequest:

     “Why, I have to find work for the thirty thousand that comes out of the coal, haven't I?”
     “Scott, what a head! I never thought of that. How are you getting along? Where have you arrived?”

• Cotts

From Latin Scōtī, or from the same source.

• IPA^(key): /ʃott/, [ʃot]

Scott m

1. A Scot
   • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

     An. DCCCCXLV Hēr Ēadmund cyning oferhergode eall Cumbraland, ⁊ hit lēt eall tō Malculme Sċotta cinge on þæt ġerād þæt hē wǣre his midwyrhta æġþer ġe on sǣ ġe on lande.

     Year 945 In this year King Edmund overran all of Cumberland, and let it all to King Malcom of the Scots, on the condition that he would be his cooperator on both sea and land.

2. An Irishman

Strong a-stem:

• Sċottas
• Sċotland, Sċotta land
• Sċyttisċ

• Middle English: Scot
  • English: Scot