What do we think of Donald?

[Cissyandflora]

I ask because I know a miserable Donald who blames his name for a sorry old life. Obviously there will be lovely Donalds about but is it going to make a comeback along with the other older style names. I don’t like the sound of the name although McDonald as a surname sounds fine to me. I had a Ronald in my class at school and always felt sorry for him and for Donald. Is it still used in Scotland?

It’s ok. I wouldn’t use it. It’s trousers not troosis what ever they are?

Douglas is nice, Bradley? I’m Scottish and I don’t think I know a Donald and dont like Don as a short version sorry. Maybe as a middle name?..

I'd always think of Donald Trump or Donald Duck.

Donald Trump has done more than anyone else in the world to render the name Donald unusable.

Absolutely not.

I actually think its quite a nice sounding name, like the Scotland connection and I'm sure there are some lovely Donalds out there but...I hear Donald l think Trump

Duck?
Trump?

@Lockdownbear

Outer Hebrides. It is still very much the done thing to name for father/grandfather here and no one would think it in anyway odd to meet baby Donald/Murdo/Neil/Colin etc. Or really any of the other names that are regularly mocked and ridiculed on the names board here.

South African activist Donald Woods died on the day that DS2 was born and I toyed with the idea of giving him the middle name Donald, especially as it was my DGF’s name. Post Trump, I’m so glad I didn’t.

Not surprised to hear it still popular in Outer Hebrides. Always seem to meet lots of Donalds whenever I visit there.

Forever blighted

Hell no.
Trump
Duck
Do not do this to a child.

@lovablequalities I had a feeling you were either going to say islands or the far north.

Nothing wrong with those sorts of names, there really isn't and I do think they will make a come back in the central belt eventually. Big fashion some of the gaelic sounding names at the moment.

A quick glance at Scotlandspeople shows that dozens / hundreds of boys in Scotland were given Donald as a middle name in the last couple of years. It seems less common as a first name. I'm guessing that most of those baby boys were given a grandfather or father's name as a middle name.