Scotland
loc · Latin script
Meaning: ‘person from Scotland’; or from Scotlandwell, Perth and Kinross; or from the Norman personal name Escotland, literally ‘territory of the Scots’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: Dominica, 2025
Scotland is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 179 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)‘person from Scotland’; or from Scotlandwell, Perth and Kinross; or from the Norman personal name Escotland, literally ‘territory of the Scots’
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Scotland, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Scotland counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | — | 701 | Scotland | 110 |
| US United States | — | 971 | Scotland | 179 |
| CA Canada | — | 1 | Scotland | 50 |
| AU Australia | — | 1 | Scotland | 61 |
| DM Dominica | — | 210 | — | 5 |
| GY Guyana | — | 134 | — | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Scotland is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from the personal name of the Scots + -land; first attested Scotlandus 1081 Bury (Kent)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, A constituent country of the United Kingdom, located in northwest Europe to the north of England.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, northern part of Great Britain
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In ang, land of the Scots in Hibernia, i.e. Ireland (a large island of Northern Europe)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sco, Scotland (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Alexander Scotlandb. 1882GBBritish Army officer
- Patricia Scotlandb. 1955DMBritish barrister and baroness
- Jason Scotlandb. 1979TTTrinidad and Tobago footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)28 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Scotland mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘person from Scotland’; or from Scotlandwell, Perth and Kinross; or from the Norman personal name Escotland, literally ‘territory of the Scots’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Scotland have the most bearers?
- Scotland is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled scotland.
What do you want to know about Scotland?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/scotlandThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Scotland”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.