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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 · 02/02/2008 18:07

How about Kirstie/Kirsty or Gillian?

My girls have Gaelic names, but we're also bringing them up in Scotland where they don't run into any problems with pronounciation.

If you're in England, however, or N. America or the like, consider carefully.

pointydog · 02/02/2008 18:06

Tiree

SugarSkyHigh · 02/02/2008 18:06

i knew a Tyree, which is apparently a scottish island (not sure if that's how it is spelt tho)

pointydog · 02/02/2008 18:06

yes scotland always Row Cow.

Like how we say David Bowie (cow) not Bowie (Sew)

pointydog · 02/02/2008 18:04

Rowan (rhymes with sew) is more of a boy's name in england.

Rowan (rhymes with cow) more of a girl's anme in Scot;land

I love it for a girl

expatinscotland · 02/02/2008 18:03

DH pronounces it to rhyme with sow, too, Pruni.

Our neighbour is a Mairhead and she says it 'My-rett'.

Wallace · 02/02/2008 18:02

That's funny Pruners, I was at school with a Roslynn too.

saltire · 02/02/2008 18:02

I used to work with a Rowan, and she always pronounced it Row (sow)an and yet I had an English friend who ahd a daughter called Rowana dn she pronounced it Ro(as in row your boat)an
I think the former is the Scots way of saying it

Wallace · 02/02/2008 18:01

Mirren isn't that common at all, only 34 last year

I think it was Murren in braveheart, which I think means sorrow or spomething like that.

Pruners · 02/02/2008 17:59

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Scotia · 02/02/2008 17:35

Roslin/Rosslyn?

Nothing to do with Da Vinci of course.

expatinscotland · 02/02/2008 17:24

I think a name like Bonnie or Ceilidh might go over better in Edinburgh or the East, some place where there are more English.

But here, it's asking to get picked on in the play yard.

expatinscotland · 02/02/2008 17:23

Ceilidh?

Oh NO!

Scotia · 02/02/2008 17:21

I know a little (Sottish) girl called Bonnie. She's rather lovely and suits her name, and no she is not related to me

I think Kayleigh is a Scottish name.

Sorry for being so 'thick' about Caitlin.

expatinscotland · 02/02/2008 17:20

I thought Rowan was for a boy?

It's one of those ambiguous names that you don't know if it's a girl or a boy.

suzycreamcheese · 02/02/2008 17:19

blithe not good sound to my ears

isn't there an actress in taggart called that??....

expatinscotland · 02/02/2008 17:18

I don't know that a Scots person would ever name a daughter 'Bonnie'.

I've not heard it myself.

I think it might cause them to get teased in school around here in the West.

, salty.

suzycreamcheese · 02/02/2008 17:16

Not Bonnie, no,our dog was bonnie!
used to snigger as a family at gone with the wind when they called their daughter it!

saltire i did say maggie too ages ago though is daphne not french?

saltire · 02/02/2008 17:15

I know what one of your DDs is called Expat, and you are right with what it Gaelic for. there is a similar sounding name that is Gaelic for Alice.

Don't like Bonnie as a name

dropscone · 02/02/2008 17:14

Blithe

expatinscotland · 02/02/2008 17:09

Oh, no, don't call her Bonnie!

Not here, please!

expatinscotland · 02/02/2008 17:08

Wait and see when she's born if she looks like the name you've chosen for her.

Best to chose two names.

We didn't, and DD1 did NOT look anything like the name we chose for her.

So she had no name for a few days.

Finally, a midwife came and said, 'If you ask me, she looks a wee . . .'

And she did!

Her name is Helen in Gaelic.

DD2 has an Irish name, she was named for DH's beloved, Irish maternal grandmother and it suits her very, very well.

No problems with pronounciation around these parts, it is Gaelic for 'rose'.

saltire · 02/02/2008 17:01

Of course we forgot the most famous Scottish lassies names of all time

Maggie and Daphne and Bairn!

it was suzy who gave me the thought when she said Hen!

dropscone · 02/02/2008 16:48

Stroma
Isla
Ishbel
Cliodhna

suzycreamcheese · 02/02/2008 16:43

hen
sorry couldnt resist

jean is simple classic name i do like it but jeannie nah..