Scottish girls names?

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So far we have Nessa, Monroe or Alba, any other suggestions?

Thoughts on the names above?

Massively outing myself but I have two boys already called Angus and Fergus.

Your boys have gorgeous names, both are on my list

I adore Elspeth

How do you pronounce Eilidh?
Is it like Eily - Aisle E ?

Baby name websites can sometimes fail to grasp local shades of meaning.

To take the most obvious example from the list referred to above, Senga would cause raised eyebrows in West-Central Scotland . It IS a Scottish name, but it is also slang for a delinquent teenage girl - it's the female equivalent of 'Ned'. (I know that is a proper (nick)name, too - goes back to 16th cent, if not before - but in parts of Scotland it honestly does have a perjorative meaning.)
It's a bit surprising that the site has two English spellings for Marjorie, but does not list Marsaili, the Scottish Gaelic equivalent.

And when it comes to Nessa, the site correctly says that the word 'ness' is of Norse origin and means 'headland'. It is a Scottish place name, not a personal name. As the site also says, Nessa as a name probably originated as a short form of Vanessa, or else, as previous poster said, as a diminutive of the international name Agnes.

For what Scottish babies were actually called in 2016, here is the data from the Scottish Government:
www.nrscotland.gov.uk/filesstatistics/popular-forenames/2016/babiesnames-2016-table4.pdf

Nessa is not on the list, but it contains a good range of Scottish names, as well as many, many others.

Rhona is usually the English spelling of the name. The Scottish spelling is Rona.

You know you're really Scottish if you have a relative called Agnes, but to be honest, I would never inflict that name on a child! Of you can go down the traditional route of adding 'ina' onto the father's Christian name. For example Robina, or Hughina (but the 'ina' bit is never pronounced like 'eena'.)

I like Isla and Shona.

Eilidh is pronounced A-lay to rhyme with daily.

Ishbel ❤

Eilidh is pronouced 'ail-eeh'. It's the Gaelic version of Helen/Eleanor and has been very popular. I know several adults with the name.

In some parts of Scotland, Agnes was traditionally pronounced 'Ann-ess' or even 'Ann-iss' which I think sounds rather softer and prettier.

They're not Scottish names. They might be words connected to Scotland doesn't mean they're Scottish names.

The prettiest Scottish name I think is Eilidh (Ay-Lee)
Others..
Aileen
Ailsa
Rhona

Sheona (shona)
Mhairi (ma-ree/ tradionally va-ree)

Aileen
Ailsa
Catriona
Deoridh
Eilidh
Elspeth
Fiona
Heather
Isla
Iona
Mhairi
Seonaid (shonich)
Skye

I love your 3 choices, whether or not they're officially Scottish!

Scotia (pronounced Scosha)

Hello

Nessa is a derivative of Vanessa and the only Nessa I've ever heard of was Welsh so unhelpful really.

What about

Catriona
Mairead
Iona
Shona
Mhorag
Morven
Eilidh
Alisa
Fiona
Heather

Angus, Fergus and...

Eilidh
Beitris
Caitriona/Catriona
Ealasaid
Elspeth
Eilionoir
Eimhir
Fenella/Finella/Finola
Ailsa
Annabel
Arabella
Iona
Ishbel
Isla
Isobel
Kirstin
Kirsty
Lilias
Mairead
Mairi/Mhairi
Marsaili
Morag
Morna
Murron
Mirren
Morven
Sileas
Sorcha

I love the name Eilidh!

Also Morag and Ailsa

I take your points about them not being Scottish. I thought the same about Nessa as being short for Vanessa so I think that's ruled out.

Thank you everyone for contributing and this thread has made me realise I really do like Monroe / Alba, over all the other names suggested. It's good to hear other opinions.

Nessa is lovely. Also Eilidh xx

Lorna is my favourite girls name at the moment.

I think a lot have been suggested already, but didn't see Nairne, Vaila or Greer?

From you remaining two I'd go with Alba as Monroe looks neither Scottish or like a real name to me.

Nairne vaila and greer and not scottish girls names

Hmm, yes they are. They are girls names derived from Scottish places or typically only used in Scotland.

Have never heard of any of them used in scotland ever...sorry.

If she likes them she should use them though.

I know people called all of those, I also know a female Logan, Moray, Rowan and Brodie. Maternal maiden names were often used as first names which means that a fair few Scottish surnames end up as either boys or girls names or both. If you trace names way back they will most likely end up Greek or Roman or something anyway.

I LOVE Alba ... always have since I saw "The timetraveller's wife" (sob)!

Sadly, it sounds awful with our surname (double sob!).

I asked my Scottish teacher friend what some of the girls in her class over the years have been called:

Ailsa, Alison, Blair, Blythe, Bonnie, Catriona (Katrina), Erica, Finola, Flora, Freya, Innes, Iona, Isla, Kirstin, Lorna, Mairi, Moira, Nora(h), Shona.

Not sure if they're 'true' Scottish names, may be generally Celtic???