Caitrìona, Ùna and Mhàiri

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What do you think?

I want something Scottish but not very very obvious (DH is very very far away from Scottish)

mhairi isnt popular at all, there were only 6 in scotland last year. Dont think there were any donalds though. (i really like it! am i weird?)

I like Donald. Don is nice too imo.

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I agree math. Scottish names would include , but not be limited to, gaelic names

mhairi isn't popular round here at all, pronounced mari or vari. nor are catriona or una afaia.

eilidh is, but then it is a downright lovely name so it's hardly surprising. lots of island names floating around as well, skye, iona, harris etc.

Morag
Katie
Effie (Oighrig)
Catherine (and every variation of - Catriona, Kay)
I'm stuck already, must be getting late

so what are your suggestions, then, Kristina?

euphemia?

So, completely ignoring all above, because it's all very serious.

DD1 is Katriona. We love, it, and she's widely known as Katie. Never come across another Katriona with a K, but no one has ever said it's wrong.

I have a relative called Adamina......

explain oighrig to me... how is that pronounced? and did we come to a conclusion re the spelling of cat/caitriona?

12 mhairis
24 catrionas
3 unas

none of those seem dead popular just now.

How about Skye? that's quite pretty.

409 baby Islas born last year, so you are right about islands ( ish)

there are 4 bajillion spellings of niamh.

What about Mirren?

oh! There's a Maggie May on this list! We have a winner!

aitch, Oighrig is two syllables, the second one is easy: 'rig'

the first one is I suppose a bit like 'oeil' the French for eye and remember the last L in oeil is not pronounced.

You would find this name very easy if you heard it? Have you never heard it?

Isnt mirrin a japanese food flavouring?

Im intrigued by Alexandreau-Le -Prince.....

Oh ive got one, Brooke-lynn

haha, just had this conversation with DP, about Maggie May:

-there's a wee girl out there named after a pub round the corner, guess what her name is?
-i dunno?

• it's super scottish. double barrelled.

-eh, Babbity Bowster?

ha ha Jenny, amusing indeed, this has been a great thread

LOL at jenny

i realise now that i have. i do like mirren, but have seen muirreann i think, or something similar.

Ooh I thought it was just me...

I have to fight the urge to tell people called mhairi that it's not a name

OP, if you like it and it's got a sentmental reason behind it as well, use it, it's a pretty sound and no-one will say it's not really a name, to your face anyway, lol

it's more of a real name than some you cone across.

my sister is catriona pronounced cu-tree-un-a (sort of)
I though that was a highlands way of saying it and ca-tri-oh-na is the lowlands way.
but I know very little about it other than my sister spent years trying to get people to pronounce her name before giving up and just being 'cat'

Muireann is Irish, pronounced Mwir-inn. It's used as an equivalent of Marian but I don't think that's correct, etymologically, as the Irish -eann suffix usually indicates the English -ness suffix. (As in Doireann, Soireann; darkness, brightness)

Cu-tree-uh-na is the Irish pronunciation of Caitríona too, Tabularasa.

There is only one correct spelling of Niamh.

lol.

so having received a lecture in broad with broad, slender with slender further down the page, i ask again Is Catriona Correct?