Scottish girls names "please"something nice

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looking for something unusual for a girl

DD1's name is on her a lot .

How about Moira?

btw did you see my post to you the other day about the gos youtube karaoke from 92?

Desperately trying to think who I knew left in 90. Would be so weird if your initials were JK...

cara's italian, no?

Catriona is that scottish?

had a lovely friend when I was a wee girl in Glasgow called Catriona.I remember being very jealous of her name.

Pruners - you still here? I thought the vari pronunciation of Mhari was the vocative, so you'd call yourself , as it's nominative, but other people speaking to you would say . Screwed up in English, obv, but wondered if that was your understanding of it.

Catriona is Scottish.

People say it 'Katrina' around here.

re vocative stuff - no no

mh is pronounced v in gaelic. Mhairi should be pronounced vari. Mari (also a name) is promounced Mari

I like both ways to pronounce Catriona.

Mhairi = Vari
Mairi = Mari

Pointy - I think I posted wrongly - I meant that Mhari was the vocative of Mari, but will ask MIL - native speaker - tomorrows, as I think I may be nuts.

Both my DDs name appear often on this thread . What about Heather or Lorna

Neoinean, pronounced Nee-on-ee-a(a as in hay)is gaelic for Daisy.
I know a Mairead, pronounced ma-rayd
I also know a few Mhairi's all pronounced Mari

how about murdina?

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expat has a point
Thomasina
Johnina
Any boy's name +ina you want and then shorten it to Ina.

Isabella a very popular name in Scotland a generation or two back. So you get a few old Isas.

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I used to know a lovely little girl called Cora years back, didn't realise it was Scottish though - very nice.

Thanks for all the sugestions, the mothers own name has been mentioned a few times on the list and also a name she likes, so here's hoping mum and dad to be will be able to choose something soon.

pruners! I think I have had a eureka moment. If you are who I think you are, you have a brother R who was very good friends with my brother F. If it is you I didn't really know you, but you are bound to know my family - lots of kids, lived close by..?

meant to say, if it is you I would really like to know what R is up to now. If you like CAt me, or I could CAT you.

I have an aunt Mirren - known as The Saint... ALso one called Magdalen. Both very good Scots names.

I really like Ailsa (like Ailsa Craig)

I LOVE Effie - but it's short for Euphemia, which isn't so nice.

Names from the turn of the last century (Maisie, MOlly etc) are all v. popular, well
I used to work in a doctor's surgery in Scotland in my holidays and the old old ladies were all called Euphemia or Jamesina pronounced to rhyme with Vagina. Ina for short.

Sorry that wasn't very constructive was it?

sorry if it's been said before, but I love Mhairi. The one I know rhymes with 'sari', and it's 'Vari' in the vocative (ie 'Oh, Vari, where are you?')