Innes? Guy?

[shinyblackgrape]

DH and I are having PFB at the end of November. PFB is a little boy. DH and I had been able to think up and agree on girls names with no problem but we're really struggling with boys.

We like fairly traditional names but there seems to be do many Sams and Olivers out there so we'd like something a little more unusual.

I'm Scottish and I do want a Scottish connection. I love Rory but DH has vetoed that. He likes James which I quite like but don't love.

I do like Innes which is a traditional Scottish name and not over used. We live in England also I don't think we'd come across many in DS' year at school. Another option is Guy (which obviously isn't Scottish) but I quite like too.

Thoughts and suggestions welcome on all of this. I want little DS to have a name that we luuuurrvve but I just can't find anything!

See my ruairidh would be rooree, but I know many people would call him Rory, so that is why we didn't use it. My dh thought Struan was too public school rugger bugger, but I'm working on him if we ever have number 2!

In my rl antenatal group there was a Rory, Struan, Innes and Donald. Plus ds is Blair. The girls were Isla and kyla, so we couldn't have had more Scottish names if we tried!

Kirk isn't made up, Kirk Douglas, tell him!! If you like guy, do you like gus? Nn for Angus or Fergus?

I'm very into Scottish names!! Can you tell!

Aberdeen is hardcore Protestant land with a more than generous smattering of lap dancing clubs. The mix is quite amusing!

But doesn't Kirk mean church rather than being an actual name?

I an aberdonian too! But live just outside Edinburgh now! My Innes work colleagues were teuchters though!!

I have never heard of Aberdeen been called hard core Protestant before. What I can say is the segregation down here of the schools has come as a bit of a culture shock. I went to school with my neighbours to the local school. I feel a bit sad that ds won't go to the same school as our neighbours son because he'll be going to the catholic school.

Sorry for the digression.

Glaikit, we're more culturally protestant than religiously so. It's not like everyone goes to church all the time, it's more just that they have a deep-seated hate of everything "fancy" or "fussy".

squoosh I don't come from Aberdeen itself, I am a teuchter. A lap-dancing club would have the locals blushing and scorning.

Squoosh - Kirk does mean church but it's a (not very commonly used) Scottish boys name too. It means (unsurprisingly!) "dweller by the church".

Glaikit - I like Angus too!

I thought the proper Scottish pronounciation and spelling of Ruaridh down here would be just too confusing so was willing to compromise on Rory but DH doesn't like. I'm hoping to work on him though.

I went to school with a Ruaridh who couldn't pronounce his r's.

Woo-wee. Poor guy. I'm not great at r's either, it's so hard for me to say.

Yeah, put it that way I get it yellow!! I find it odd being defined by religion. One of the first questions a neighbour asked up when we moved in was which church we'd be going to. There are 2 in our small town/village. She was a bit shocked whe I said neither were are humanists!! I may as well have told here we were naturists!

I have a secret hankering for the name brae (like a hill) after Edith bowman used it as a middle name for her son rudy! I reckon I'd get lots of looks with that one after the reactions of some to Blair!

I've traced my husbands Innes' back to the 1700's in Banffshire. We also know of an Innes (as a first name) in his 50's on Harris.

Cannot believe no one has mentioned 'Hamish'!

I'm English, lived in Scotland for many years before coming home to London - Our plan was always to move back South so DS's have Scots names and English middle names.

DS1 - Murdo nn 'Mo'
DS2 Hamish, nn 'Moushka' or when he was smaller 'mish-mish' Ruraidh was a possible for DS2, but I have a soft English 'R/W' and it would have sounded wubbish rubbish.

I've a friend who has a wee boy called Nairn. I really like this, I call him her 'little oatcake' :)

Rufus? Not overly Scottish sounding but Scottish-ish nonetheless

Ha! Rufus must be the most un-Scottish name I've ever heard.

And it always reminds me of doofus.

Really? Doesn't it mean 'red one' in Gaelic ?

What's a doofus? American yes?

I love Innes, Struan, and Rory too. Also Gregor. Good solid Scots names, not too common but popular enough IYKWIM (up here anyway). DH didn't like any of these so I feel your pain OP but luckily we had girls so we avoided a row over it!

Rufus is Latin isn't it?

I have no idea if Rufus is Gaelic, I do know that I've never heard of a Scottish person called Rufus.

I hear it being called in RP tones across a village green.

"Oh Ruuuu-fuuuus, come in for your suppaaaaa!"

What about Scottish place names?

Carrick

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Arran

i'll bypass Muck and Eigg though!

Innes is too close to girls name Ines for me (but then I am not in Scotland).

I like Guy, and know one, an adult.

We were going to call DD (if she was a ds), Travis which scottish friends of ours have called their ds.

I also love Fergus but would use Gus.

What about Griff?

Yes yellow, that's the test for any name. Imagine yourself, standing on your doorstep I your dressing gown and slippers yelling at the top of your voice in an aberdonian accent accent ala roisin fromriver city "roofuss yer teas readeeeeeee".