Scotia
#16,864 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Scotia has been given to 35 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #16,864 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1974, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Scotia, 2025
1 in 663,000
Scotia over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Scotia?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #16,864
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Scotia sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Scotia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Scotias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Scotia was born before 1994 — so the typical Scotia is around 31 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 31.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 48.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 35
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 31.4% of all recorded uses (11).
Is Scotia rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 71.4%
- Peak was 1974 (7)
- Years since peak
- 51
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Scotia
Scotia is not the most common spelling — Sofia is, with 70.7% against Scotia's 0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Scotia around the world
Where Scotia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- Ireland2022–2022#905in 2022
- Canada1992–2024#2,256in 2024
- South Australia1955–1977#637in 1977
Popularity data from Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Scotia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Scotia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Scotia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.