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Leighyum

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YerAuntFanny · 02/08/2018 17:19

Why? Just. Why?

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WaxOnFeckOff · 03/08/2018 15:46

Cheers! I like your username too! The ones I know are not all posh either unlike the Billy Connolly sketch about Farquar etc :o

WaxOnFeckOff · 03/08/2018 15:45

I quite often turn up at things and the place is full of surname for first name folk, some more common than others. I know folk called Argyll, Moir, Campbell, Barclay, Warwick, Grant, Lyall etc etc

YeTalkShiteHen · 03/08/2018 15:44

Thanks WaxOnFeckOff (great name!) I was just curious and your answer makes sense because both the Borders and the Highlands and Islands aren’t places I’ve really been much so it’s obvious now how you’d see it as common and I wouldn’t.

Isn’t it funny how local area changes trends?

WaxOnFeckOff · 03/08/2018 15:39

yertalkshitehen There aren't many about but it is used. It's generally more common to use surnames in the country regions I suppose, I come across more in Highland and Islands and in the Borders than the cities and towns. My own DH has a surname for first name too (rural family) but not so common in my own family who are city folk.

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YeTalkShiteHen · 03/08/2018 15:27

Phaquorfe is the new Tarquin

Haha that’s funny Grin

TitsalinaBumSquash · 03/08/2018 15:26

I've mentioned this loads of times on MN but I know a Toeknee.

YeTalkShiteHen · 03/08/2018 15:26

Both Aulay and Auley are used as given names in Scotland

Is it regional? I’ve lived all over the central belt and Tayside and never come across one in nearly 40 years. But then different areas have different names, which is why I’m asking.

AgathaRaisonDetra · 03/08/2018 15:20

Phaquorfe is the new Tarquin.

WaxOnFeckOff · 03/08/2018 12:04

Both Aulay and Auley are used as given names in Scotland. It's reasonably common here to use surnames as first names. Not saying they aren't using it as a different way to spell Olly, but it wouldn't raise an eyebrow here as people would assume it was a family name in the same way as Innes or Fraser or Brodie etc. I know a Macgregor and a Walker and many more.

BikeRunSki · 03/08/2018 10:59

Grin Thye-Dai

D0do · 03/08/2018 09:33

Thye-Deezel

I suppose a Welsh variant on that might be Thye-Dai.

Good grief. Poor kids.

YourVagesty · 03/08/2018 09:15

Such variation would've been commonplace prior to the roll-out of education for the masses.

Disturbing that it's making a come-back post-standardisation Confused

Trialsmum · 03/08/2018 09:01

When ds was a baby, I was on a different baby forum with a mum who called her baby Thye-Deezel.

YeTalkShiteHen · 03/08/2018 08:59

Surely the Mc in McAuley / McKenzie means "son of Auley / Kenzie" so they must be names of pretty long standing?

They’d be the Anglicised versions of them, since the original names would have been in Gaelic. Mc is Irish, Mac is Scottish.

PolkerrisBeach · 03/08/2018 08:49

Mais’on River hmm Why the apostrophe?!

Because it's soff-is-tick=atedd and yoo=neek, innit?

LaDaronne · 03/08/2018 08:42

Surely the Mc in McAuley / McKenzie means "son of Auley / Kenzie" so they must be names of pretty long standing?

Flamingo19 · 03/08/2018 07:53

Oh and a friend Of mine knows a lady who called her son Mais’on River Hmm Why the apostrophe?!

Flamingo19 · 03/08/2018 07:49

A boy in my sisters class at school was a ‘Maffyew’ Grin

hendricksy · 03/08/2018 07:29

I use to know a gorgeous man called joe .. I use to call him joeyum as in joe is yummy .. made me think of that !!

WellySocksBox · 03/08/2018 07:27

Are Flair's parents from Hull, perchance?

DS was at nursery with a friend he called Primrerze. I finally saw her name on a picture and it's a very normal Primrose.

ememem84 · 03/08/2018 07:11

Someone once spelt my name rather uniquely.

Emmerleigh

I’ve also had clients ask over the phone whether my first name is spelt with a y or an ie. I always say “emily with a y”

Had an email forwarded to my from my boss the other day addressed and sent to “[email protected]”

popcorneveryminute · 03/08/2018 06:54

@Tefiti2 there is a Scottish connection but I think it's an attempt at being yoonique - their other child is also an A name with an uncommon spelling of a traditional Scottish name

Seeingadistance · 02/08/2018 23:55

Sorry, realised I'd misspelled Aulay.

Aulay, not Auley, appears once as a first name on Facebook. Which does make it ooooonique!

Seeingadistance · 02/08/2018 23:52

Flair! As in "sweep the flair"? Oh, dear!

@Tefiti2

Where have you heard Auley? It's not a Scottish name. McAuley, yes. That's a fairly common Scottish surname.

UntilTheVeryEnd · 02/08/2018 23:50

I know a KC, like those two letters are her Christian name... I’ve always wondered why would you? Confused

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