# Scobie (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/scobie/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Scottish Gaelic.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Scottish Gaelic |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 531 |
| US rank (2010) | 41,038 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 581,442 people |
| Change since 2000 | +1.1% (525 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

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

## Who carries it

Share of people named Scobie in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 90% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 4.1% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.6% |
| Two or more races | 1.5% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Scobie in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

## People named Scobie

- Ronald Scobie, British Army general (1893–1969)

## Similar surnames

Scaife, Shobe, Scheib, Scheibe, Sapp, Schwab, Shipp, Sabo, Swope, Szabo, Savoy, Schaub.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.