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Scottish girls names "please"something nice

211 replies

fin54 · 02/02/2008 11:52

looking for something unusual for a girl

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expatinscotland · 04/02/2008 00:35

This one was born in the East, at Edinburgh.

But we moved West, and despite all we love the East and her people are all from there, and so I have no other people here, being foreign as I am, I am so grateful to be accepted, it's doubtful we'll ever live there again .

Linnet · 04/02/2008 00:32

maybe it's an east/west thing. I'm on the east coast.
my friends neice is called Eilidh as well and she's 4.

expatinscotland · 04/02/2008 00:27

OMG, she is the only Eilidh, well, Ailidh, in her class.

Both at nursery and in primary school.

And Roisin, well, they misheard and called her Lucie. LOL.

That is my mother's sister's name, and their mother was a French orphan.

lu-CEE, my gran would always say.

Linnet · 04/02/2008 00:17

expat, my dd1 is 10 and there are 2 Eilidhs in her class at school and there were 3 in her nursery class.

expatinscotland · 04/02/2008 00:14

coinneach = kenneth

Broodymumof2 · 04/02/2008 00:12

pointydog.... Mhorren ?? is gaelic and spelt different originaly but my friends daughter is this spelling the meaning is something to do with of the moors or something.

i am on the west coast of scotland and there are 2 Bonnies in my dds class and 2 nessies and one nessa in her school all are short for vanessa! (i was only joking about using the nessie btw!)

mckenna is gaelic and means son of cionaodh (son of kenneth) but seems to be used for girls and boys these days and my friends daughter just called her new baby girl this and seems to be popular with younger mothers.

Is there a reason for a scottish name maybe it will help to find one with a meaning!

Swedes · 04/02/2008 00:08

Inverness Caledonian Thistle?

expatinscotland · 03/02/2008 23:22

Oh, NO! Not Hibernia or Caledonia, no? You'd not do that, no?

Scramble · 03/02/2008 23:18

Hibernia LOL what Hibee for short. (Its a football team )

Pruners · 03/02/2008 23:17

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EachPeachPearMum · 03/02/2008 23:08

Agatha
Morna
Iona

Caledonia?
Hibernia?

expatinscotland · 03/02/2008 23:01

Sorry, it's something that weighs on our minds.

expatinscotland · 03/02/2008 23:00

I cringe, but I think if we have any chance to stay here, we will have to go to the islands.

Oh, my Lowland girl!

I can do no better than America, and that I would not chose for you, though you may.

They offer us no home but there.

expatinscotland · 03/02/2008 23:00

I cringe, but I think if we have any chance to stay here, we will have to go to the islands.

Oh, my Lowland girl!

I can do no better than America, and that I would not chose for you, though you may.

They offer us no home but there.

Scramble · 03/02/2008 22:55

Iona,
Skye,
Rhona,
Elie
Elidh
Siobhan (Shi-vaun)

chubbymummy · 03/02/2008 22:47

Darcie

expatinscotland · 03/02/2008 22:40

You do here in the West!

specialmagiclady · 03/02/2008 22:35

Mostly joking... but you know how Scotland is... you never know!

expatinscotland · 03/02/2008 21:01

Scots say Roisin to rhyme with 'gosh', too!

My two Irish pals, however, say 'Roh-jean'.

So I say, when people ask, to pronounce her name the Northern Irish way, because that is how people say it here so that is how she answers.

MIL was so delighted! But her 'mam' was from Cork. So MIL got all her songs. She sings and sings and now me and DD1 after her.

Roisin was a sunny, joyful, delightful woman despite being an orphan brought up by nuns and raised to be a domestic servant, and so is her great-granddaughter .

pointydog · 03/02/2008 21:00

oh lord, yes, every second wumman is a Margaret or derivative thereof.

Would have called dd2 Margaret (Maggie) except we had used it as dd1's middle name.

Wallace · 03/02/2008 20:40

specialmagiclady - are you joking or do you come from around here too

RipMacWinkle · 03/02/2008 20:31

I have an Eilidh and a Roisin in my family - tho my Roisin is in NI (pronouced like gosh rather than row - sheen)

You have good taste Ms Expat! And no bother pronouncing either where we are but since you're West I'm guessing you're not so far from me!

expatinscotland · 03/02/2008 20:28

Ach, DD1 was called this in 2003.

It just suited her.

As I said, we'd never thought of it at all.

You do hear it here, and no one has a problem pronouncing it around these parts, though.

Nor DD2, who is Roisin, although they say it the Northern Irish way here and not the way they do in the Republic.

RipMacWinkle · 03/02/2008 20:28

Actually I stand corrected. Looking back to 2002, it was number 24 so I guess it's not moved.

Which is a good thing. Sorry for misinformation!

RipMacWinkle · 03/02/2008 20:25

Hi Expat - ok so it isn't number 1 but we noticed it had jumped by 15 or 16 places between 06 and 07.

www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/publications-and-data/popular-names/the-most-popula r-names-in-scotland-2007/popular-names-2007-detailed-tables.html

Don't get me wrong I still love it. But funnily enough after we thought about it I heard of about 3 wee Eilidh's. And I'd thought it was unusual. But I guess that's just because you start noticing!

Gorgeous.

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