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Sibling name for baby sister to Fiona and James

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missingmargarita · 09/06/2014 08:48

We have a little girl on the way and we are struggling to come up with names! Looking for something that's not too popular, but very pretty, and preferably scottish, although not too worried about that! Help!!

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bouquetofpencils · 10/06/2014 00:51

Erin
Caitlin
Clara
Skye

soontobeslendergirl · 09/06/2014 22:33

Ainsley?

Nyree?

aoife24 · 09/06/2014 21:52

Hannah

janie2 · 09/06/2014 18:45

Rhona
Morna
Mairi
Afton - river and burns poetry
Lorna
Mary
Ailsa
Bonnie
Shona
Maisie
Sadie
Ann

Eastpoint · 09/06/2014 18:42

Harriet - not very popular at the moment but classic

outtolunchagain · 09/06/2014 17:53

Elspeth
Ishbel
Isobel
Isla
Lorna

meditrina · 09/06/2014 17:48

Clementina
Charlotte
Isabella

bouncingbelle · 09/06/2014 17:43

Ines
Alison
Ailie
Elspeth
Maisie
Mirren
Monica
Farrah
Alexa

QuarterCracked · 09/06/2014 16:24

Annabel Drummond . That is why it is considered scottish sometimes.

ancientbuchanan · 09/06/2014 16:04

Elspeth
Alison ( originally Scots)
Anything with Ina added on, eg Thomasina

Margaret
Jean/ Jeanie
Mary
Christian/Christina/Kirsty
catriona

Have a look at Burns' poetry. Lots of girls names there. Obv lowland, but your other two are lowland as well. ( Je not the highland or gaelic versions).

lucidlady · 09/06/2014 15:55

Annabel. Not sure it's particularly Scottish but I like it. If DC2 were a girl instead of a boy this would be my choice.

BikeRunSki · 09/06/2014 15:53

I stand corrected. I also once knew a Spanish/Scottish girl with the same sounding name, which I assumed was Scottish, but now I see it could have been Spanish Inez.

Still a nice name though.

LindaMcCartneySausage · 09/06/2014 15:43

Agree with the PP who said that Innes is a boy's or surname. Never used for a girl in Scotland. I imagine it became a grandmother's given name from the Scottish tradition of using mothers maiden name as middle name. V common.

And they sometimes end up being used. My DF's goes by his middle name - ie his mother's (ghastly in my view) surname.

QuarterCracked · 09/06/2014 14:59

you said sister [embarrassed]

QuarterCracked · 09/06/2014 14:57

Maeve or Donald
Clodagh or Diarmuid
Mairead or Patrick
Andrea (not Andrew for a boy though, that's too dull) or Gregor

SomeSunnySunday · 09/06/2014 14:54

I think, BikeRun that that may have come from the Scottish tradition of using a mother or grandmother's maiden name as a (usually middle) name for girls? So although Innes is a surname, it will have been used as part of a first name in this way? All of the women in my family have surname-derived middle names. I really like it (and lots of people are now using surnames as first names in a more modern way, e.g. Mackenzie).

BikeRunSki · 09/06/2014 14:01

I meant Innes, which was one of my Scottish grandmother's given names.

IvyBeagle · 09/06/2014 13:59

Imogen
Helen
Susan

soontobeslendergirl · 09/06/2014 12:59

Thegirl Ach so it is! Mental block!!

Think maybe Bike means Inez or Ineez which I have heard of for a girl.

TheGirlOnTheLanding · 09/06/2014 12:48

Soon, Renee (pr. REE-nee not the French way) is short for Irene.

Bike, I've only ever heard Innes as a boy's name in Scotland. Have you heard it used for a girl?

TeacakeEater · 09/06/2014 12:33

I was going to say Grannies are Margaret and Ina in my experience!

Back in my family tree Christian / Christina comes up regularly.

BikeRunSki · 09/06/2014 12:27

Innes
Ailsa
Erin
Shona

soontobeslendergirl · 09/06/2014 12:24

Greta
Morag
Noreen
Clara

soontobeslendergirl · 09/06/2014 12:21

You get loads of versions of Elizabeth - for example, there will be Liz, Lizzy, Libby, Beth , Bethy, Betty, Eliza, Liza, Bunty aome people being known by more than one by different groups of friends. You also get a lot of Ina's short for all manner of names from Christina to Willemina to Philomena - in fact loads of male names converted to female such as Duncanina, Donaldina etc.

I have Aunts and older relatives who are:

Hetty
Alison
Evelyn
Ena (not sure what it's short for)
Rita (Margaret)
Bunty (Elizabeth)
Norma
A fair few Margarets
Mary
Lilian
Meggie
Patricia
Pamela
Renee (not sure what short for)
Rhona
Hazel

florascotia · 09/06/2014 12:12

I trying to think about the Scottish equivalent of 'granny chic'. Perhaps other Mumsnetters can help? Many older women I've met here have very traditional names such as Janet, Margaret/Maggie, Elizabeth, Marion, Helen/Helena/Ellen, Johan, Alison, Aileen, Agnes (=Annis), Christina/Chrissie, also Mary/Mairi, Anne, Mary-Anne, Mary-Jane....