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I have discovered the most fantastic girls name, it is so cool, I might have to have a baby to call her that.

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Carmenere · 15/08/2008 23:02

Well obviously I won't as I hated all the horrid pregnancy and childbirth nonsense but I heard this name today and after googling it I think it is FABULOUS.

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Weegiemum · 15/08/2008 23:58

Its nice! I like indulging in the imaginary names game as I am not having any more.

recently read a book with a boy called Merethin in it - now I will never use it, so I could indulge myself by liking it.

expatinscotland · 16/08/2008 00:00

Eithne. That's the latest unusual Gaelic name I have read.

I think I could get DH to let me call our hamster Fraoch if it's a male one.

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Carmenere · 16/08/2008 00:00

Struan is a really great name Expat, I really like it, that boy will grow up to be a man of character.

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Weegiemum · 16/08/2008 00:02

As in the Heather Ale, expat?

expatinscotland · 16/08/2008 00:02

It's easier to pronounce than the girls' names, well, if you're outside of Scotland.

No one ever asks, 'How do you pronounce that?' up here .

Remotew · 16/08/2008 00:02

I love it, never heard it before. Not going to have anymore but if I did!! Love it more so that it has roots.

Expat, still love Struan.

Weegiemum · 16/08/2008 00:03

"Baby Name Threads : The New Chat"

expatinscotland · 16/08/2008 00:03

Aye, Weegie, it is an old term for heather.

There's a tale about Fraoch in West Highland Celtic mythology, and his mother-in-law to be, Maeve and her daughter Morag.

It's very cool how the West Highland tales and legends are intertwined with Irish ones, particularly Ulster stories.

Remotew · 16/08/2008 00:06

Met a little girl last year who was call Moran, straight away I said 'Braveheart' she was scottish.

expatinscotland · 16/08/2008 00:07

If this one had been a girl, we'd have called her Muireann. But I admit to having pinched it from a girlfriend of Colin Ferrell's and not a film.

pofaced · 16/08/2008 00:07

My point is simply that calling a child Aoife/ Aislinn/ Siobhan makes it very difficult when she starts school in Hackney rather than Harolds' X... personally I wish I had called one of my 3 DDs Mary: it's fantastically rare these days, has an absolutely clear history behind it and asserts the child's ethnicity without being too obscure!

Remotew · 16/08/2008 00:10

Moran lovely name, different spelling.

About Mary. I so which I had had Mary as my DD's middle name. My late mum was Mary but well I didnt think at the time when she was still alive

expatinscotland · 16/08/2008 00:10

there are so many ethnicities in Hackney, though, they probably wouldn't stand out anymore than someone from Africa or the Middle East with a name to reflect such.

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Carmenere · 16/08/2008 00:12

I have a really odd name that is spelt differently to how it is pronounced and whilst it is occasionally a pain to spell it out and explain the etymology I love it. It makes me who I am.

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Remotew · 16/08/2008 00:14

Anyone care to say what their DD's are really called. I'll show you mine if you show me yours .

expatinscotland · 16/08/2008 00:15

My girls are: Scots Gaelic for Helen and Gaelic for rose (for DH's beloved 'Nana' from Cork).

Remotew · 16/08/2008 00:18

Carmenere.

[Nosy emotion] what is it? Dont answer if you dont want to. I'm totally convinced that no one in Mumsnet is within 30 miles of me so I feel anon. Understand if other people arn't.

brimfull · 16/08/2008 00:19

here's one to try and pronounce

Damhnait,

I know someone with this name

Weegiemum · 16/08/2008 00:20

Mine are on my profile so I might as well say:

dd1
Katherine (and that causes enough problems - Catherine, Kathryn, Cathryn, Katharine) and her middle name is Morna, which is gaelic for 'beloved'

dd2
Rachel - after dh's lovely grandma who died 2 weeks before she was born, and middle name Jessie after my Gran who was alive then but has since died.

I also have a ds

Remotew · 16/08/2008 00:20

Expat, just little bit the wiser but my DD is Naomi she's 14. Hey I feel liberated.

Remotew · 16/08/2008 00:22

Weeji, my best friend was Kathryn, spelt differently but a lovely name.

expatinscotland · 16/08/2008 00:23

I like Naomi. Wasn't her name 'Mara' before that? I may have that confused with the Ruth story, though. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Weegiemum · 16/08/2008 00:25

Naomi called herself Mara after her husband died.
It sounds like the Hebrew word for 'bitter', as her life would be bitter without a husband.

expatinscotland · 16/08/2008 00:26

I loves a good story behind a name!

Back when I was in a haze of hormones and DD1 was born with no name, I wanted to call her Pear for Hester Prynn's daughter in 'The Scarlett Letter'. 'Like one bought at great cost'.

But she didn't look it and so she had no name and we were in hospital for days as I had an infection after a traumatic delivery.

The midwives all loved DD1, as she was a good and contented baby, so they were take her away to the nurses station.

As one was putting her back in her cot she said, 'If you ask me, she looks a wee Eilidh'.

She did.

Her name suits her.

Roisin always looked like a Roisin.

Remotew · 16/08/2008 00:27

Thanks expat glad you like it. But I havent a clue what you are talking about 'Mara' or 'Ruth'. I'm intrigued. Not me! Was it interesting?