Where has Eilidh risen in popularity?
It is DD1's name.
We had meant to call her Fiona, but she looked like no such, so she'd no name and she and I were in hospital for days as I'd have a forceps delivery and then a postpartum infection.
So the midwives loved that 'bairn', as DH has always called her, because she was a good baby. She was never a bother and cried little and was the image of her father, who looked like his grandfather Mackenzie, much to his mother's delight.
And they took interest as she'd no name.
So one day there came a Highland midwife to tend us and she said, 'If you ask me, she looks a wee Eilidh.'
And so this stuck.
And she suits it in every way.
But even in the wee school away in lower Argyll where she will start in August there is no one else with this name among the 30 girls there, the headmistress has said as much.