Girls name or major No?

[NurseJay]

I LOVE the name Scottie for a little girl but everyone seems to think I'm mad? Is it that bad? I think it sounds V cute

I know a boy called Scotty. It was cute when he was a toddler.

I don't think it's awful, but like pps have said, I think it needs to be a nickname, to allow your dd something slightly more professional in the future.

I think it's awful. She'll get called scotty dog.

OP I still think you should go for it if you love it.

I don't get why people think it won't work for her as an adult.

There are lots of names now that are really just a nickname.

There are no end of Harry's that aren't really called Henry or Harold, Charlie's that aren't Charles or Charlotte. Why are those nickname names okay for adults but Scottie is unacceptable past childhood?

And I'm not convinced that she'll be teased for her name either, but if she is, no more so than other children get teased for other names.

My friend at school hated being called Olivia because of Olivia Newton John and Olivia the Pig.

Nobody has said you can't have the name Jessica because of Jessica Rabbit.

There are far worse name associations than Scottie dog or Beam Me Up but I don't think she'll be called either of those as often as people are saying here.

My real name was unusual when I was given it, people used to make comments on it, but honestly it made no difference to me and it's more widely used now. I liked being the only child in the school with my name, compared to the endless Amy's and Claire's I was surrounded by. There was a very famous person with my first name as I was growing up and not one person every called me by her full name in the way my friend got called Olivia NJ.

Use the name if you love it. Once it's her name, it's her name, and the people around you will associate it with her rather than with dogs, TV shows or some wrestler her school friends will probably never have heard of anyway.

@Hygge you are a wise and realistic woman! op definitely listen to this advice. Honestly ' beam me up scottie' that was said on a show probably over 30 years ago, what age are these other posters?! . Our childrens generation wont ever of even seen or heard of it. Its the sort of thing my 67 year old father would reference from the William shatner star treck days in the 70's. Yes, these phrases enter our society and public consciousness from all sorts of media and history (I am well aware many sayings and words we use today are Shakespearean influenced or directly taken from his plays). But these references are tenuous at best. Scottie dogs do exist but so what? loads of people/items/creatures exist with the same names it's just a matter of time and that 'named' thing being named for a certain amount of time before people get used to the new association.

There's a female character called scotty in suits, although it's a nickname from her last name being Scott, I really like it

And there's several phrases for people who cant get used to new names and associations (stuck in the past may be one of them

Your hardly suggesting calling her Moonbeam rainbow-feather ....

As my ds said in another context yesterday “next level hilarious middle class tomfoolery”

I”if you like it, use it”

No. If you like it change your own name by deed poll....

So to be clear, the full name you're thinking about is Scotty Katy?? Really OP???

Maybe i'll go on a thread about another child becoming another 'Matilda' and say it reminds me of that really annoying girl who played her in the film....but why would I really? it's a perfectly normal respectable name (the sweetest girl my daughter knows is a Matilda) and it's such a tenuous, personal opinion how would it really help the poster actually decide? Agree its more of a subjective opinion then the whole Scottie dog thing but good grief!

A person inevitably came before the Scottie dog breed after all. And fyi, Scottie dogs are so 2016... no ones buying them any more op its all about the greyhound, staffie and french bulldog

There destined to yet again become an old persons thing, just like the old star treck phrases since the new and improved j.j Abrams versions are here

Scotia or Ascot nn Scottie

I know an adult (m) Scottie

"Honestly ' beam me up scottie' that was said on a show probably over 30 years ago, what age are these other posters?! "

I don't think there is a particular age associated with being a Trekkie. It's not just about the dates of original transmission of the early series, it's a whole, enduring and very widely known fandom.

And I think Scottie is being related to this (and dogs) because it's not a name, and not remotely close to be accepted as one. And yes, you do get comments about associations to 'real' names too. Not just neologisms - for example Tallulah is originally a saints name, but a wall of "stripper" and "does the hula" comments are inevitable whenever it's discussed on MN. Because that's how people 'see' it.

And MN baby names board is the place where people can tell you openly (though one hopes not brutally) when they don't like a name, including why.

Woejous.

No, there's a big difference Hygge and Pottery between having an ordinary name that is commonly known, that also has a famous person or character named it, and, what the OP is suggesting, which is giving her child something that isn't a commonly known name (other than as a nickname teammates / workmates might call someone with the surname Scott, or even someone who hailed from Scotland).
It really isn't the same at all.

No, she'll be called Scrottie!

Ascot nn Scottie

Only if you mispronounce Ascot.

It's absolutely dire. One of the worst names I've heard on here yet. Just don't.

Caledonia shortened to Scotty?

Jessica would be much nicer.

Scottie rhymes with snottie and it's a type of dog. And it's a boys' name.

You could always give her a real name, like Jessica, and call her Scottie as a nickname.

My sisters name is Katie but her real name is Katherine so I'm thinking either

Jessica Katie R
Or
Scottie Katherine R

I don't want people to judge her on her name she will be brought up to be a strong independent woman just like her mammy! In the next 20 years we will we an influx of professionals called Poppy, Mollie, Bonnie etc so that "Not an adult or professional" view doesn't work on me

Please please please please Jessica. 🙏🏼

In fact we have a new doctor on the ward called Millie and she is one of the best most professional doctors I've known! Cute name but fierce doctor when she needs to be, but she is also majorly sweet!

Could you consider the Italian word for Scotland - Scozia - pronounced a bit like Scot-zia - and then nickname Scottie? Scozia looks more like a real name to me.

BackForGood you can say that, but the Olivia I knew hated the association with ONJ so much she decided to start using her middle name when we were fourteen, for her more unusual middle name which I think was Croatian in origin.

She then used to get comments about her unusual name, but she said it was preferable to the Olivia references.

OP's child might love having an unusual name, but if not she will have Katie to fall back on.

Scottie might not be a common name but there are people on this thread who say they know someone called it.

Scottie might be unusual but it's not unheard of, and even if someone does think "oh, scottie dog" or "oh scottie obscure wrestler" or insists on saying "beam me up" it's hardly the end of the world or the worst association to put to a name.