Scottish Islands- ok names?

[CalaLilly]

As Scots living on "the other side of the border" we want to promote our Scottish heritage by giving our kids Celtic names. We have a Mc surname so also feel that celtic names match well.

I've just realised that we've got a lot of island names on our short list and wondered what you guys though?

Girls:
Iona
Ailsa
Ailia
Skye
Cara
Shona (their is an island called Shuna)

Boys:
Harris
Lewis
Arran

Atholl
Kinnear
Girvan is also a name I've heard used
Fyffe

I knew a wee boy called Clyde and I loved it

wee Clyde!!!

I know a Torridon.

Torrin means clan chief

I fear I've lost the Scottish Islands theme here though

I think someone needs to use Muireann indeed, dizzy.

I think someone needs to use Muireann indeed, dizzy.

CalaLily - how do you feel about Muiranne pn Mirren?

expat and I would give you our full support seeing as we couldn't have one

My girls have female Gaelic names, but not island names.

There's also a ferry called Shuna .

Scarba and Sanda, too.

Aye, I'd have loved to add a Muireann to the lot, but 'twas not to be.

Struan's a great name, however .

Aye, I'd have loved to add a Muireann to the lot, but 'twas not to be.

Struan's a great name, however .

The nursery has a Bear Factory bear called Clyde.

Wish i'd thought of Struan.

What about Tobermory?

Phlox, sorry to ask you personal info and thanks for what you did disclose as that is very helpful

Haha on the Muireann thing... do I detect a running joke (erm, just slightly Miss quick off the mark!). Sadly DH has banned names that begin with M as he doesn't like alliteration.

I quite like Murn rather than Mirren but only cos of Braveheart!

Clyde makes me think of a sealion I once met in a water park! And also Tiger Tim from Clyde 1 fm who i used to listen to at 10am every night during my teens

Thurso anyone?

I'm really getting into this now!

A student I worked with came up with it when I was pregnant with DD2 and we didn't know if it was a boy or a girl. I had no boy names and this student said, 'Why not call it Struan if it's a lad?'

So when we got a lad, he was always Struan.

We have a girl who is Helen in Scots Gaelic and another who is Rose in Gaelic.

its pn the same Calalilly but the old spelling

Cala, have you got it then?

How about Dee for a girl, after the river?

How about some river and loch names?

How about Lorn?

Or Lorna?

I've narrowed it down to 2 names Phl0x- both from near the start of the Alphabet... am I anywhere close?

How about Colonsay or Jura?

Don't think so. More near the end of the alphabet. Acutually closer to Aberfeldy (alongside Loch Tay)

I've got a Rory for exactly the same reason as your dp (I've got a gaelic name that's always misspelled/mispronounced).

However, imagine my frustration amusement to discover that Ruari/Ruaridh etc are now such popular names that if you say your child is called Rory you're immediately asked how you spell that.

So, Ruari won't cause a child any angst.

I know a little girl called Tiree - v pretty.

Lorn makes me think of sausage- but I do like Lorna... go figure?!?

expatinscotland, isn't the river Dee in Chester? River and Loch names are a food idea.. "That's a Fyne wee lad you've got there". And we could just sentence a future daughter we have to a life time of teasing by calling her Nessy!

Well, there's definitely a river Dee up here, Cala! If there's one down south, I wouldn't know. I'm rather ignorant about geography in the south.