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Scottish Names

Scotland names from three directions at once — Gaelic in the west and north, Norse in the isles, and Scots and Norman French in the lowlands. A Scottish name therefore tells you roughly where in the country it comes from, which is not true of English names.

Languages behind these names Gaelic Irish Scottish Gaelic uncertain Hebrew Greek

Rankings for

102 names, most popular first in United States

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Girls Boys Unisex

Isla Isla is a girl's name of Scottish origin, taken from Islay, an island in the Inner Hebrides, and from the River Isla in the Scottish mainland.
Girl Scottish #28 in US
Logan Logan is a name of Scottish origin meaning "little hollow," from the Gaelic lag, meaning a hollow or low-lying place, with a diminutive ending.
Boy Scottish #53 in US
Paisley Paisley is a girl's name taken from the Scottish town, whose weavers gave their name to the swirling teardrop pattern.
Girl Scottish #67 in US
Cameron Cameron is a name of Scottish origin meaning "crooked nose," from the Gaelic cam, crooked, and sròn, nose.
Boy Scottish #76 in US
Ian Ian is a boy's name of Scottish origin meaning "Yahweh is gracious," the Scottish Gaelic form of John.
Boy Scottish #83 in US
Callum Callum is a boy's name of Scottish origin meaning "dove," from the Latin columba.
Boy Scottish #118 in US
Carson Carson is a name of Scottish and Irish origin meaning "son of Carr."
Boy Scottish #124 in US
Bryson Bryson is a boy's name of Scottish origin meaning "son of Brice."
Boy Scottish #152 in US
Blair Blair is a name of Scottish Gaelic origin meaning "plain" or "field."
Unisex Scottish #169 in US
Maxwell Maxwell is a boy's name of Scottish origin meaning "Mack's pool."
Boy Scottish #189 in US
Knox Knox is a boy's name of Scottish origin meaning "round hill."
Boy Scottish #196 in US
Mackenzie Mackenzie means son of Coinneach, and the missing sound is the point — the Gaelic ends in a soft ch that English cannot spell, so the anglicized ending was written as a z that was never pronounced as one.
Girl Scottish #228 in US
Grant Grant means tall or large, from a Norman French nickname — and it has nothing to do with granting or giving, which is a different word that arrived in English by a separate route.
Boy Scottish #228 in US
Brody Brody is a boy's name of Scottish origin taken from a place near Forres in Moray.
Boy Scottish #236 in US
Dallas Dallas is the only rising name in this group — it peaked in 2015 and is still climbing, at 238th in the United States.
Unisex Scottish #238 in US
Malcolm Malcolm means devotee of Columba, and it is one of only two rising names in this group — 168th in Canada, 272nd in the United States, 362nd in Scotland, 539th in Ireland, 1333rd in England and Wales and 1629th in France, and climbing in our data rather than falling.
Boy Scottish #272 in US
Lennox Lennox is a unisex name from a Scottish district whose name means "place of elm trees," and our data records it as unisex.
Unisex Scottish #289 in US
Reid Reid means red, and it is the Scots spelling of the color — a byname for someone with red hair or a ruddy complexion, which is why it charts across six markets that all had Scots settlement.
Boy Scottish #293 in US
Gavin Gavin is a boy's name from the Arthurian Gawain, whose meaning has never been established.
Boy Scottish #303 in US
Finley Finley is a name of Scottish Gaelic origin meaning "fair-haired warrior."
Unisex Scottish #333 in US
Colin Colin has two entirely separate origins — a French pet form of Nicolas, and the Scottish Gaelic Cailean.
Boy Scottish #343 in US
Bryce Bryce means speckled or freckled, from a Gaulish saint's name whose meaning is not certain.
Boy Scottish #357 in US
Anderson Anderson is a boy's name of Scottish and Scandinavian origin meaning "son of Andrew".
Boy Scottish #363 in US
Blaire Blaire is a girl's name of Scottish origin meaning "plain" or "field", from the Gaelic blàr.
Girl Scottish #384 in US
Bonnie Bonnie is a girl's name of Scots origin meaning "pretty" or "fine."
Girl Scottish #396 in US
Karson Karson is a boy's name of Scottish and Irish origin, a respelling of Carson.
Boy Scottish #453 in US
Mack Mack means son of, and on its own it is only half a name — the Gaelic mac is a prefix, so using it alone is like naming a child Junior with nothing in front of it.
Boy Scottish #463 in US
Kameron Kameron means crooked nose, and it is one of very few clan names built on a face — the Scottish cam sròn described a feature, and an entire Highland kindred took it.
Boy Scottish #467 in US
Monroe Monroe is a unisex name of Scottish origin meaning "mouth of the Roe" — a river in Ireland, not Scotland.
Unisex Scottish #467 in US
Fiona Fiona was invented by a Scottish poet, and then used as a pen name by a man — William Sharp published as Fiona Macleod for a decade and denied being her until his death.
Girl Scottish #470 in US
Kyle Kyle is a boy's name of Scottish Gaelic origin meaning "narrow strait," taken from a district of Ayrshire.
Boy Scottish #508 in US
Skye Skye is a girl's name taken from the Hebridean island, whose own name is disputed between a Gaelic root meaning "winged" and a Norse one meaning "cloud."
Girl Scottish #531 in US
Scott Scott is a boy's name meaning a Scot, from the surname given to people from Scotland.
Boy Scottish #534 in US
Mckenzie Mckenzie means son of Coinneach, and the z was never a z — it replaced a lost Scots letter called yogh, so the name has been mispronounced into its own spelling.
Girl Scottish #576 in US
Jamie Jamie is a unisex name of Hebrew origin, a Scottish diminutive of James meaning "supplanter" or "holder of the heel."
Unisex Scottish #577 in US
Kyla Kyla means a narrow strait if it comes from Kyle, and the Scottish word behind that names a specific kind of water — a channel between an island and the mainland, as at Kyle of Lochalsh.
Girl Scottish #580 in US
Lachlan Lachlan is a boy's name of Scottish Gaelic origin meaning "land of the lochs," which was the Gaelic term for Scandinavia — so in practice it meant Norseman.
Boy Scottish #606 in US
Campbell Campbell is a unisex name of Scottish origin meaning "crooked mouth".
Unisex Scottish #617 in US
Lochlan Lochlan is a boy's name of Gaelic origin meaning "land of the lochs," which was the Irish and Scottish term for Scandinavia — so in practice it means Norseman.
Boy Scottish #644 in US
Mac Mac is a boy's name from the Gaelic word for son, which appears in every Mc- and Mac- surname there is.
Boy Scottish #696 in US
Makenzie Makenzie means son of the handsome one, which is an odd fit for a name that is 99 percent female in our records — the Gaelic Mac is a patronymic, and it has not been reinterpreted.
Girl Scottish #700 in US
Mckinley Peaked in 2014 · 23,734 births since 1890
Unisex Scottish #713 in US
Leslie Leslie is a Scottish place name turned surname turned given name, and it has crossed sexes: about 71 percent of the births in our records are female, though the name began firmly male and remains so in Britain.
Unisex Scottish #714 in US
Clyde Clyde took nothing from Bonnie and Clyde.
Boy Scottish #742 in US
Maisy Peaked in 2010 · 11,920 births since 1996
Girl Scottish #745 in US
Keith Keith is a boy's name from a Scottish place name, probably from a Brittonic word for a wood.
Boy Scottish #800 in US
Jessie Jessie is a name that arrives from two unrelated directions — the Scottish pet form of Janet, and a feminine of the Hebrew Jesse.
Unisex Scottish #823 in US
Melvin Melvin is a boy's name from a Scottish place name, and the gentle chieftain reading usually given for it is an invention — the source is a Norman family who took their name from Malleville in France.
Boy Scottish #958 in US

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