Scobie

English

Etymology

Scottish habitational surname from a lost settlement in Perthshire named with Scottish Gaelic sgolbach (“thorny place”).

Proper noun

Scobie (plural Scobies)

1. A surname from Scottish Gaelic.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Scobie is the 41038^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 531 individuals. Scobie is most common among White (90.4%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Scobie”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.