Glaswegian names

[GuatemalanRum]

If you are Glaswegian & born in the 70s or 80s, what names did you hear growing up and what would you/have you named your dcs now?

Dp is Glaswegian which I had hoped would give me free rein to use lovely names such as Fergus, Euan, Douglas, Ishbel, Elspeth.. Sadly when I suggest these he looks at me like I've lost the plot (he claimed Ishbel is what a drunk Scot would say for Isobel ) and wants to call our dc John

I would be grateful for some cultural guidance!

[mrsfazruns]

Agnes

[Buntystninians]

Wayne

[YesILikeItToo]

I was born in Glasgow in the early 70s. The more Scottish names in my class were Eilidh, Mharie, Innes, Gordon.

[VenusVanDamme]

I was born mid 80s and have always lived in Glasgow and I can confirm that the names in your OP weren't at school with me!

80s kids:
Andrew
Scott
Michael
Martin
David
Ross
Christopher
Emma
Laura
Lynsey
Heather
Jennifer
Julie

Current popular names in baby groups:
Jack
Noah
Ollie
Joseph
Emily
Isla
Olivia

None are particularly Glaswegian but I did hear of a baby Tam (not Thomas, Tam!) in hospital which is more traditional Glasgow!

[Branleuse]

Wee Stuart

[Paulat2112]

My mum was born at the start of the 70s and is called Faith, her sister is Debbie. I am called Paula and was born at the end of the 80s, my brothers and sisters are Fraser, Callum, Rannoch and Blair.

My children all have very Scottish names :)

[AnnieHoo]

Ishbel or Ishbal is the anglicised version of the Gaelic for Isobel.

I know 3 from ages 17-55 and they're all lovely

It's shortened to Ishi or Isha.

[bouncingbelle]

I'm from glasgow and went to school with Angela's/Paul's/ variations of James/Nicola's.

Maybe the only really 'scottish' name I heard a lot of was Sandy short for Alexander.

Now, the baby groups are full of Eva/Sophie/Chloe with only Isla, Mirrin and Iona as the 'Scottish' names for girls.

Boys are Finlay/Fraser/Rowan/angus/Archie which actually thinking sbout it, all seem fairly traditional scottish to me :)

[CalamitouslyWrong]

Some of those suggestions may be an improvement on my actual name (some of them are not far away, at least in the spirit of the name). My family are of the green persuasion, so I'd never be a Mary Doll Super-Ally .

The Fergoo thing was made even better because his surname got a brilliant French interpretation to go with it. In my mind, he'll always be Fergoo.

[Behooven]

Haw-Jim for a boy and Senga-hen for a girl

[slippermaiden]

Thomasina? I have a Ewan.

[roughtyping]

*their

[roughtyping]

mellie, no them names were actually lovely.

Well I don't know what the answer to the Pocahontas thing is but I definitely spoke to mothers regardi g their children - I'm not lying

[felkov]

OP here are the names of babies recently born in Glasgow that I know:
Thomas
Luke
Fergus
Rory
Ruraidh
Joseph
Joshua x2
Ava
Chloe
Jessica
Susanna
Leah
Calum
Ross
Rose

1970/80s names
Robert
Alistair
Katy
Susan
Craig
David
Shona
Alison
Emma
Laura
Emily
Scott
Owen
Rachel
Lindsay

[IvoryMadonna]

Pocahontas might be the second name though. They could have given her a boring conventional first name to play safe.

[HMF1]

Not forgetting the twins Dolce & Gabanna. Pocahontas completely fails the playground test for children's names.

[MellieGrant]

'Using the Freedom of Information Act, he [a solicitor called J. Conn] confirmed that no-one named Pocahontas has been recorded by the General Register Office for Scotland since at least 1974.'

The movie came out in 1995 so I'd be very, very surprised if there were any forty-something Pocahontases anyway.

[SunnyBaudelaire]

Jimmy

[Jackieharris]

I know a pocahontas who lives in larkhall.

Calamatous- is it Peggy or Anne-Marie?

[MellieGrant]

NRScotland gives all Scottish baby names back to the 70s and there are no Pocahantases from 2014-1990. So that puts that to rest.

I assume the sisters mentioned upthread are Versace McClatchey and her sister Armani, reported to reside in Craigend, Possil, Govan and the Gorbals according to various legends

[SoldierBear]

Not a myth.
My ex was working in a Glasgow hospital in 1995 when a little Pocahontas was born there. It was the talk of the hospital. Again, was combined with a very Scottish surname.

[HMF1]

The Pochahontas story the great urban myth, spread mainly by health visitors, I think everyone in the West of Scotland knows someone who knows someone who has met a Pochahontas but no one you ever meet actually has.
I lived in Glasgow when when our 3 DS were born in the 90s & early noughties loads of Scottish names our NCT group had Alastairs,Cameron's ,Ross, Euan, Hamish, Struan, Fraser, Ruaridh, Robbie & Finlay. Thinking back to my school days there were Alastairs , Cameron's, Hamish, Gavin, Gordon's, Stuart's, & loads of other less Scottish names .I think the Scottish names renaissance has been going on for about 20 years but less so with girls names.Don't think any are particularly Glaswegian though.

[roughtyping]

Well I know there are definitely a few when the mums phoned up I had to ask them to repeat it! Imagine shouting THAT across a playground.

[Trooperslane]

I know of a Pocahontas McA..... In Belfast. Sister Ariel. Not joking

[AgentCooper]

roughtyping, there is apparently a Pocahontas McGrath in Strathaven. Lots of people doubt her existence but I know a few who claim to have met her!