Hamish or Murray

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Trying to decide on a name for our second son, who is due soon.

Our first is called Angus, and we are Scottish (if that wasn't obvious )

DH and I love both and just can't make the final call.

I maybe have a VERY slight preference for Hamish but I worry that Angus and Hamish are a extremely stereotypical and predictable sibling set, DH isn't concerned about this and pointed out that they are individuals so we shouldn't be thinking so much about how they sounds as siblings.

Any views would be helpful!

Much prefer Murray
Its on my list if I have a boy!

Murray is definitely old man. Like naming your child Clive or Cecil. Maybe it's due a revival but I'd go with Hamish.

Disagree completely. All Murray’s I know are young. Personally think Hamish sounds much more like an older man’s name. Definitely prefer Murray.

I like Murray the best.

I like Hamish!

Duncan, Euan, Alistair and Sholto my other Top Scotpicks

Hamish. Great name.

I love Dougal

Murray.

We nearly named DS Murray and also on our list was Stirling. I have a Scottish DH and we're both Formula 1 fans.

I vote Hamish

Prefer Murray

100% Hamish. Far more unusual.

Hamish is possibly my favourite name. Love it.

Murray will always be the guy from Flight of the Conchords to me.

I prefer Murray. But Struan is my all time Scottish favourite.

Hamish.

Hamish

Great name.

For some reason my autocorrect tried to change it to Hampshire if that's a concern. Not sure why, as Hamish is a proper name!

Murray! I think it’s a fantastic name. Masculine, unusual (in England, I don’t know about Scotland) and just GREAT. I hope you choose it!

I have a 2 year old Hamish!

I still adore the name and he suits it so much, love Hamish and Angus together too

You'll have had your tea Hamish?
My dcat is called Hamish and he's gorgeous...

Another Hamish the cat here...

I would like to add we had a Hamilton also who went by Hami.. He was cool and Hami wasn't to be nasty!! He was just Hami!!

Agree

I love Hamish. I would have loved to call ds that but we're English (dh is technically 1/2 scottish) and it wouldn't work with our surname

Ken what? I've not met a Murray for years, any age, but knew a great one 30 years ago in school.

Get yourself a Murray, never heard of a bad one

Hamish is awful, such an ugly sounding name. I really like Murray. It’s a bit more unusual and less cliched too. Yes, I’m Scottish.

I like all those names - though prefer Moray to Murray. Hamish is fabulous but think it's a bit twee alongside Angus. What about a Scottish name that's not quite so tartan and shortbread when put alongside Angus -
Craig
Innes
Alexander
Calum
Finlay
Lewis (though also a place name so maybe a bit much)