WDYT of Hamish???

[DottieRose]

Part of me loves it yet part of me feels like its a but clunky! Weird I know!!

Eli has been used in England since the reformation. I think of it as much as a Protestant (esp Methodist/chapel) name as a Jewish name although obviously it's roots are Old Testament. Hamish is derived from Seumas which is a form of James which comes from Jacob which has it's roots in the Old Testament.

I am one of four, thinking about our names, my brother's name is Greek, my big sister's name is Germanic (now considered quite archetypally English), my middle sister's name is Irish and mine is (mostly) French. I think it only looks/sounds odd if the styles are very different - ie Sebastian and Keisha or Ptolemy and Joe might be surprising in siblings.

I love the name Hamish I would have loved to use it for current DS I'm brewing but it doesn't go well with our surname. Please use it.

I like the name Hamish and think it goes with Eli.
It also reminds of me of one of my DS favourite jokes:
What do you call a Scottish man who's nearly home?...
Hamish :)

I love the name Hamish. Absolutely love it.

Not sure it "matches" Eli - but does that matter? I do agree with posters who have said one is Scottish and one is Hebrew and so they don't match, but I am not sure it matters much. They are not completely at odds with one another.

Love Hamish. And Eli. They aren't matchy but I have a French-origin name and my brother is Donald- never harmed us!

Fair point about the mix of names for siblings. I have a brother and a sister, together we have a common biblical name, a slightly obscure biblical name and a swedish one. No one has ever commented on this!

I also think that they go well together.

I think we always tried to match first names with surname when we were baby naming. I don't think we paid much attention to having children's names which went together. My dd1 is 19, and has advised the current boyfriend that she will keep her surname if they marry because her name wouldn't go with his surname. Complicated task, babynaming!

Like it!

Its a very common dogs name, if that is of any import to you whatsoever!