Scobie
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘person from Scobie’, an unidentified place in Perth and Kinross (‘thorny place’)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈskɑbi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Scobie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 63K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 72K
- USUnited States1 in 626K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 200 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
≈920 people, est.
Highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘person from Scobie’, an unidentified place in Perth and Kinross (‘thorny place’)
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Scobie counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 72K | 540 | Scobie | 125 |
| US United States | 531 | 1 in 626K | 531 | Scobie | 200 |
| CA Canada | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Scobie | 71 |
| AU Australia | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 63K | 1 | Scobie | 97 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Scobie | 53 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 166K | — | Scobie | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); 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)
Scobie is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
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)
- James Scobieb. 1826GBAustralian murder victim
- Jonathan Scobieb. 1827American Christian missionary
- Grace Scobieb. 1876Australian activist
- Ronald Scobieb. 1893GBBritish Army general (1893–1969)
- Edward Scobieb. 1918DMDominican-born journalist and historian
- Gavin Scobieb. 1940GBScottish sculptor, 1940 – 2012
- Stephen Scobieb. 1943CACanadian poet (born 1943)
- Eric Scobieb. 1952NONorwegian writer
- Jason Scobieb. 1979USAmerican baseball player
- Omid Scobieb. 1981GBBritish journalist and writer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 540 | #10,708 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 531 | #41,038 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 525 | #39,444 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 524 | #44,220 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Scobie mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘person from Scobie’, an unidentified place in Perth and Kinross (‘thorny place’) Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Scobie?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈskɑbi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Scobie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 919 people named Scobie in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled scobie.
- How common is the name Scobie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 531 people named Scobie in 2010, about 1 in 626 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/scobieThe 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, “Scobie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.