Glaswegian names

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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!

angels Am sure you are absolutely right about Jamie now, but I think I was really considering chaps aged over around 30. Back then, I think, Jamie was 'bosses' son' material .... But I should have written more clearly.

Kirsty
Jacqui
Lorna
Paula
Christine
Catherine
Stuart
Craig
Douglas
Grant
Gordon
Logan
Brodie
Andrew
Lachlan

Yes. It is having with Graham/Graemes.

There was one in my class. And Stewarts.

Just had to pipe up here - I'm an Ishbel!
But I do need to say 'ISHbel not Isabel' regularly

Ruiraigh.
Alisdair

Sheena
Ally
Mairhi

I was born in 85 and went to school with a million Clares, Seans, Liams, Pauls, Anthonys, Kevins and Patricks. Guess which side of the curtain I was on! I barely knew anyone with a 'proper' Scottish name.

I actually love John for a baby. DH is a Glaswegian John and I find the idea of a wee baby John very cute, for some reason. Tbh, if you want a really Glaswegian name, you need Jimmy. Everybody gets called Jimmy (if their real name is unknown).

I know 2 Glasweigan Ishbels

Sorry missed Elinor or Eilean

Fergus, Euan, Douglas, Ishbel, Elspeth these are noughties Scottish names, not names of the 70s/80s.

At school in the 80s I remember
Norman
Donald
Paul
Craig
Michael
James
Simon
Scott
Steven
Gordon
Peter
Martin
Neil
Gary
Rowan
Nairn
Ross

Girls
Emma
Alison
Jennifer
Carol
Corinna
Fiona
Lorraine
Lorna
Susan
Cheryl
Deborah
Gillian
Sarah
Donna
Kate
Elizabeth
Joanna
Leah
Aileen
Teresa
Lisa
Anne

Boaby

Ishbel isn't a name, but the rest are popular.

I knew an Ishbel forty years ago, I think it just fell out of fashion.

Jamie
Gregor

I know an Ishbel now! And Senga is just Agnes backwards. If you don't have a relative called Agnes or Senga then you aren't really Scottish! And Glasgow and Edinburgh are very different, even though they aren't that far away from each other.

Sorry, those are names I like now.

I grew up in the 70s and the boys in my street were Calum, Iain, Donald and Gary.

The boys in my class at school tended to be Aidens, Kevins, Thomas and, oddly, two Bernards.

Imagine you are in a Glasgow playpark and your child is misbehaving. You yell "Gaunnae nae do that (insert name here)!" Does it sound ridiculous with your chosen name? If so, it isn't a Glaswegian name.

DH is a Glaswegian. His name is John. DS is half-Glaswegian and his middle name is John.

Another one who thought Ishbel was drunken slurring!

We need the Kevin Bridge's West End freshers sketch on here.

Lots of Irish-influence names over here too.

PMSL at Lennon. There was a wee Lennon born at the same time as DD.

Dod. As in George.
Can't get more Scottish than that.

Doll.

All Glaswegian delivery men seem to think I'm called Doll.

Thanks all - really interesting reading.

Just to be clear - I'm not intent on giving dc a Glaswegian name, just trying to understand Dp's naming references. He moved to England aged 18 (and doesn't read mn baby name threads!) so I guess it is unsurprising that the more revivalist Scottish names sound a bit alien to him.

I'll work on him (or maybe John will grow on me!)

Oh and I did suggest Lennon (as a joke) - he said it was better than Stalin

I love being called Doll. And hen.

Wee Man for boys. DH is now chuffed to be referred to as Big Man

Senga=Agnes is at one level an insult name (the "Senga ned") but is reasonably frequent I have found. But it sure ain't a posh name. But has belonged to some perfectly respectable people I have met.
When went onto my first ward I was astonished by the number of Euphemias I looked after with various derivatives (Effie, phemie etc). But they were all 70+ then... So it would count as a granny name.
Would agree that current choices in Glasgow are more Scottish than the people I know born 70s/80s. Karen, Stacey, Julie, Marie/Maria, Rhona, Donna, Katrina, Stephanie, Gillian, Denise, Sharon
Stephen, John, Mark, Kevin, Robert, Graham, Gordon.
Have picked husband's brains a bit here. John would be fine.
I think the more 'Scottish' names have been an upward trend more recently.
Good luck convincing your husband

Oh yes, all the Wee Mans and Big Mans!

I knew a man once whose name was Wee Man. I felt like such an idiot saying 'hello Wee Man, how are you?' in my non Weegie accent.