Scotty is a pet form of Scott, an English surname that means "a Scot" or "person from Scotland". It has a cheerful, old-fashioned nickname sound, familiar from Montgomery Scott, the chief engineer in Star Trek, and the line Beam me up, Scotty. In the United States Scotty ranked number 1572 in 2000, dipped past number 3000 in the 2010s and has bounced back to number 1399 in 2025, its best rank since 2000.