Sholto
About Sholto
Rugged but gentle, Sholto is a traditional Scottish first name, especially within the Douglas clan, with Sholto Douglas being its mythical ancestor. It is an Anglicized form of Sìoltach, meaning "sower".
Sholto appears in on a minor character in Elizabeth Gaskell's1855 novel, North and South, and as a surname in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novel,
The Sign of the Four. It has been notably borne by wheelchair rugby player Sholto Taylor, pianist Sholto Kynoch, and rower Sholto Carnegie.
Pronounced SHOL-to.
As of October 2026, Sholto Nameberry popularity #953.
Editor: Pamela Redmond
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
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Sholto on lists
Famous Sholtos
- Sholto Douglas
mythical progenitor of Scotland's Clan Douglas
- (William) Sholto Douglas
1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside, senior commander in the Royal Air Force
- Sholto George Watson Douglas
19th Earl of Morton
- (Robert) Sholto Johnstone Douglas
Scottish figurative artist
- (Charles) Sholto Wyndham Marcon
English schoolmaster, clergyman and Olympic field hockey player
- Sholto Kynoch
English pianist
Sholto in pop culture
- Sholto Pinn
character in The Bartimaeus Sequence by Jonathan Stroud
- Sholto Lennox
baby in the 2004 movie version of Elizabeth Gaskell's "North & South"
- James Sholto
character on TV's "Sherlock"