Scottish boys names

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Expecting our second and we cannot agree on boy's names! We're in Scotland, I'm Scottish and DH is Irish so we're keen for a traditionally Scottish first name as the kids have a very obviously Irish surname.

Our DD has a traditional, easy to spell and slightly unusual but not wacky name that we love. It's also a name that can be used as a Surname and I quite like that.

Names I like but he's vetoed:
Innes, Harris, Angus, Hamish, Munro (I wasn't super keen on this)

Names he likes but I don't:
Cameron, Campbell, Lewis

We both like Arran but I'm convinced it's a girls name as I went to school with 3 female Arrans!

Any ideas??

I'm Scottish and would never have considered Arran to be a girls name, or even unisex. Definitely a boys name, in the central belt anyway.

Ramsay
Kerr
Grant
Mcgregor
Cairn
Duncan
Donald

Am in the Highlands, I've never heard of Arran as a girls name before.

Ross, Fraser or Alistair are nice.

Dougal.

It's due a comeback!
It's also a really nice name to say and goes well with most surnames.

Duncan , Harrison, Alexander

Robert or Bruce

I'm
Scottish and I conor stand the names hamish and Angus. Ugly names used by people trying to ensure their Scottishness! Cameron, Ross, Iain etc are acceptable

Mungo? Really??!?! Set up a child for universal bullying

I've only ever heard Arran for a boys name and I'm within viewing distance and know a few of them!

I have a Ruaridh and absolutely love it. I love it more everytime I say it and we have friends from Lewis who pronounce every vowel very sing song and I love it even more.

Jimmy
Morton
Robbie
Gus (Angus)

Arran is a boys name - 2 in my LOs class. Never came across a girl with it.

Aaron I would pronounce like Apron rather than Apple although my preferred spelling is like the Isle of Arran.

Haggis

Laird

Aye plenty of them about would you call a child Sausage? Maybe Mash, Neeps, Spud

While it's often a surname it's one that I wouldn't use as a first name because of the meaning, Laird = lord, the owner of large estates are called Lairds

How funny I've only met female ones, I've lived in Scotland all my life. Though I think there is a little boy Arran at my DDs nursery. I couldn't use it anyway as it brings back too many memories of Arran, a girl who was in my standard grade maths class circa 2005, who kept trying to nick my mascara 😆
Sadly Raith makes me think of the Raith interchange, which is a junction that regularly annoys me on the M74...

@BluebellsareBlue , what's wrong with Mungo?

LOL to Raith interchange, which tends to just get called Raith, also Raith Rovers, not a name I'd choose either.

Nothing wrong with Mungo, patron saint of Glasgow, similar to Mungo would be Murdo.

Arran can definitely also be a boys name, tbh I thought of it more as a boys name! Being Scottish myself, I would think any of these might be good (depending on how they run with the second name of course):

Andrew
Alistair
Archie
Cameron
Douglas
Duncan
Ewan/Euan
Fraser
Fergus
Gordon
Iain/Ian
James
Lewis
Logan
Ruari/Rhuaridh
Scott

There are probably more, but that's a start!

Op look around your family names, inc your, your mums, grannies maiden names any of them that you fancy using as a first name?

Angus (Gus)

Dougal
Robertson

Baird
Boyd
Brodie
Campbell
Craig
Crawford
Wallace

Oh and I have a Finlay, although I'm Scottish (Dh) is English we live in the East of England and very rarely hear it used.

Finlay
Struan
Hamish
Douglas
Calum
Ruaridh
Iain
Murdo
Angus
Duncan
Euan
Stuart
Moray
Bruce
Logan
Ross