Leighyum

[YerAuntFanny]

Why? Just. Why?

Someone once spelt my name rather uniquely.

Emmerleigh

I’ve also had clients ask over the phone whether my first name is spelt with a y or an ie. I always say “emily with a y”

Had an email forwarded to my from my boss the other day addressed and sent to “[email protected]”

Are Flair's parents from Hull, perchance?

DS was at nursery with a friend he called Primrerze. I finally saw her name on a picture and it's a very normal Primrose.

I use to know a gorgeous man called joe .. I use to call him joeyum as in joe is yummy .. made me think of that !!

A boy in my sisters class at school was a ‘Maffyew’

Oh and a friend Of mine knows a lady who called her son Mais’on River Why the apostrophe?!

Surely the Mc in McAuley / McKenzie means "son of Auley / Kenzie" so they must be names of pretty long standing?

Mais’on River hmm Why the apostrophe?!

Because it's soff-is-tick=atedd and yoo=neek, innit?

Surely the Mc in McAuley / McKenzie means "son of Auley / Kenzie" so they must be names of pretty long standing?

They’d be the Anglicised versions of them, since the original names would have been in Gaelic. Mc is Irish, Mac is Scottish.

When ds was a baby, I was on a different baby forum with a mum who called her baby Thye-Deezel.

Such variation would've been commonplace prior to the roll-out of education for the masses.

Disturbing that it's making a come-back post-standardisation

Thye-Deezel

I suppose a Welsh variant on that might be Thye-Dai.

Good grief. Poor kids.

Thye-Dai

Both Aulay and Auley are used as given names in Scotland. It's reasonably common here to use surnames as first names. Not saying they aren't using it as a different way to spell Olly, but it wouldn't raise an eyebrow here as people would assume it was a family name in the same way as Innes or Fraser or Brodie etc. I know a Macgregor and a Walker and many more.

Phaquorfe is the new Tarquin.

Both Aulay and Auley are used as given names in Scotland

Is it regional? I’ve lived all over the central belt and Tayside and never come across one in nearly 40 years. But then different areas have different names, which is why I’m asking.

I've mentioned this loads of times on MN but I know a Toeknee.

Phaquorfe is the new Tarquin

Haha that’s funny

yertalkshitehen There aren't many about but it is used. It's generally more common to use surnames in the country regions I suppose, I come across more in Highland and Islands and in the Borders than the cities and towns. My own DH has a surname for first name too (rural family) but not so common in my own family who are city folk.

scotland.shinyapps.io/babynames/

Thanks WaxOnFeckOff (great name!) I was just curious and your answer makes sense because both the Borders and the Highlands and Islands aren’t places I’ve really been much so it’s obvious now how you’d see it as common and I wouldn’t.

Isn’t it funny how local area changes trends?

I quite often turn up at things and the place is full of surname for first name folk, some more common than others. I know folk called Argyll, Moir, Campbell, Barclay, Warwick, Grant, Lyall etc etc

Cheers! I like your username too! The ones I know are not all posh either unlike the Billy Connolly sketch about Farquar etc :o

I got lost down the rabbit hole there, there were 5 girls born the same year as DD with the same name! 73 for DS2, and 489 for DS1!

I know a Grant and a few Campbells, but not the others. I quite like the names you gave, nice Scottish names!

None of mine have particularly interesting names tbh, but DDs is unusual in the sense that it’s old fashioned (not yoooooneeeeek I promise!)

I went to school with a Leigh-Anne. And I have a FB friend whose daughter is Emma Leigh. They just call her Emma, though, not Emily.

Leighyum is beyond :o it's the "yum"!

YeTalkShiteHen

Yep that wee app is great. Only been 22 of DS2 since 1974 and none until 1987.