A baby called angus?

It's a surname used as name (quite rarely) but I have noticed a male presenter on BBC Science programmes called Dallas.

Probably gone the way of Leslie/Lesley and Cameron.

The only name I can think of going the other way is Christian which was definitely used in my family for girls in the 1800s.

" I know a Scottish girl called Dallas. Is it traditionally a boy's name?"

No- it's traditionally a city's name.

I've heard Max or Mags as a short form for Magnus.

AugustHasToBeBetter I know a Scottish girl called Dallas. Is it traditionally a boy's name?

I really wanted to call DS Angus but DH vetoed it as we're in England and it would be quite unusual.

We went with Duncan instead which has loads of nn / associations but I don't care. I'm sure he will be Duncan Disorderly at some point and we often call him doughnuts.

I think it depends where you live, as Duncan is considered quite strange here and people often comment on it.

Finlay/Findlay is also really popular here.

drinkscabinet - what other shortened form does your Magnus go by? My main concern with the name (despite my DH majorly pushing for it) was that it couldn't be easily shortened. I thought about using Gus, but wasn't sure if it would work.

Very popular for the last ten years up here has been Lewis.

And Dallas is my wild card option for you OP!

I quite like Magnus but I worry he'd be called Maggie, and that makes me think of Thatcher it's bizarre how names evoke things isn't it??!!

We've had precisely this problem with the staff at nursery. For a while DS insisted on calling himself Maggie but I got his older siblings to start calling him a better short form and the Maggie thing has now passed. We always call him by his full name, not that fond of any of the short forms TBH.

We have a cat called Angus because we are AC/DC fans!

I do love the name for a person though. It's a good, classic, strong name.

We have a Fraser and a very Scottish surname.

I'm in Scotland and I know quite a few little Anguses. I think it's a lovely name, and was one of our options if we had a DS instead of our DD. Our other choices were:
Hamish
Campbell
Magnus (my DH's favourite)
Cameron
Jamie

Innes is fairly popular up here, and I also like Struan and Lachlan. Fraser and Rory are great options, too.
Re. your questions, I think the alliteration with your name would be really nice, I don't know anyone who has ever had problems with missing out the 'g', and he doesn't need to be Gus if he doesn't want to be (none of the Anguses I know go by Gus). I definitely wouldn't go with the Irish/gaelic spelling.

How about Gregor?

I like Nairn(e) as well.

I like the name Angus

1. I've 2 Irish named children but would stick with Angus in this case
2. I like alliteration in names
3. can't see why they would
4. gus is a great nn. Can't think of any other obvious ones. As you will know you can end up with a random nn for years/ decades due to any conversation/incident or event esp in early secondary school. This is not really in anyone's control!

Ooh what about Fife? That's what I was trying to remember earlier.

Angus is a nice name, but personally I'm not keen on the Irish spelling. My son has a name that has several different spellings, and people get it wrong a lot of the time, so unless you have a particular reason for wanting the Irish spelling I would stick with the standard.

I work with an Angus who is shortened to Gus, not aware of any other shortenings.

I don't think people will miss out the G. Possibly when his classmates are at 'that' age they will try it on, but kids will make something out of just about any name.

You have a nice long surname, so I think the two go well together.

I don't like Hamish, but I am biased because I used to work with a really weasely guy called Hamish. Douglas is a nice name, but there is recently-voted-out politician Douglas Alexander (will be a non-issue by the time your son is going to school though I would imagine).

Ugh meant angus! I like the name angus (I'm Scottish)

Ruaraidh if hamish doesn't suit

I really like Fergus and Magnus, I admit I hadn't thought of Maggie though.
I do know an Angus called anus, he isn't very popular unfortunately.
Rory is fab.
Rory Alexander sounds great.

Love Angus, was on shortlist for DS, he is Innes tho!also on list was
Fraser
Hamish
Lachlan
Lennox
Magnus - didn't work with our surname
We are in the south east and I have a Scottish DH.

Angus is a great name and having two As is fine. Alexander Armstrong has done okay with it.

Most of your names were also on my shortlist for DS. All lovely.

I don't think Alexander is the kind of surname that most people would instantly think of as being very Scottish. I bet a lot of people wouldn't even identify Alexander as being a Scottish surname.

Kids will either be given a nn or they won't - it often has little relation to the original name anyway.

I know a couple of Scots boys called Innes.

Then there was that Scottish-Iranian singer a wee while back called Darius. That would be an interesting combo with your surname.