Scottish Americans or
Scots Americans (
Scottish Gaelic:
Ameireaganaich Albannach; ) are
Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in
Scotland.
Scottish Americans are closely related to
Scots-Irish Americans, descendants of
Ulster Scots, and communities emphasize and celebrate a common heritage. The majority of Scots-Irish originally came from Lowland Scotland and Northern England before migrating to the province of
Ulster in
Ireland (see
Plantation of Ulster) and thence, beginning about five
generations later, to North America in large numbers during the eighteenth century.