Help - what am I going to call db if it is a boy?

[Miaou]

dh and I want a Gaelic first name for our db. We have a girls name all sorted, but just don't know about a boy's name. We both like Cameron and Calum, but tbh neither really lights my candle. I have looked on loads of websites but can't find anything I really like. Any suggestions?

Middle name will be Hugh, btw.

[chipmonkey]

Cian
Eoin
Fionn
Conall
Oisin
Oscar
Liam
Colm
Diarmuid

[mcmudda]

I knew a Cathel once - it really suited him - I think it was a Highland place name rather than a Gaelic name though.

[Rhubarb]

Hello Janh! Just going, time here is too short! Things here a bit more positive, so fingers crossed! Oh and the telly thing.....August

[Janh]

Link for you, jangus

(It took me about 3 years to learn how to do it!)

[beansmum]

I like Caiden, I think it means handsome but I could be wrong

[jangus]

thanks J...

[Janh]

Oh, good news, Rhubarb - we can't come this year so please be there next year (tell DH he has to! We'll bring some Guinness!)

[Janh]

Dermot? That was one of lockets' possibles for a boy.

[jangus]

What about Finn.... as in Finn McCool from the Giant's Causeway?

[jangus]

the other spelling for Rory is Ruairi... which i like

[jangus]

Fionn MacCool... the story in on the link somewhere.

[Janh]

Oooh yes, Finn v v nice.

Lots of possible names around that:

FINBAR m Irish
Anglicized form of FIONNBHARR

FINBARR m Irish
Anglicized form of FIONNBHARR

FINLAY m Irish, Scottish
Anglicized form of FIONNLAGH

FINLEY m Irish, Scottish
Anglicized form of FIONNLAGH

FINN (1) m Irish
Anglicized form of FIONN... [more]

FINNBAR m Irish
Anglicized form of FIONNBHARR

FINNÉN m Irish
Variant of FINNIAN

Miaou, I wish you hadn't started this today, I love a good name thread and I'm supposed to be cleaning!

[Miaou]

Yup, love Finn, and Ruaridh (spelt that way) - dh is just way too picky!!

Sorry, should have said, Scottish Gaelic rather than Irish Gaelic (though there are a lot of crossovers I know)

Thanks for the suggestions, keep them coming!

Sherlock, Rhubarb?!?!?!?!

[jangus]

Jan, did you read about Fionn MacCool on the link? it is actually quite sweet. I live about 20 miles from the Giant's Causeway.

[jangus]

Hamish... is that Scottish Gaelic?? I dunno.
I like it but DH things it doesn't suit our surname, Angus (ish/us = too much)

[Janh]

jangus, I just read it, what a good story!

My MIL is from NI, DH and his sister took her over for a weekend for her birthday last year and the year before and they went to Giant's Causeway so we have some pictures of it.

[jangus]

Hamish Hugh.... maybe not.

[Janh]

You can have Dougal then, Miaou - Scottish enough for you I'd have thought

How about Murdo?

[Miaou]

Mmmm, like Hamish ... could always change middle name, it's not set in concrete.

Lordy this is soooo hard.....

[jangus]

a friend of mine at uni in scotland was called Dougal Laghlan Mungo (oops can't remember the surname, but it was v scottish as well)

[fastasleep]

Dougal and Hamish are scotty dog names just shoot me.

[Janh]

Mungo, I think that's what I was thinking of when I said Murdo.

How about Iain?

[jangus]

Jan.... Im feeling like a bit of a traitor now being an Angus living in NI!

[Miaou]

Hmmm - not sure about Murdo - all the Murdos I know are dour old men

[Janh]

Angus can be Irish too though, jangus?

AONGHUS
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish, Irish, Irish Mythology
Possibly meaning "one strength" derived from Irish óen "one" and gus "force, strength, energy". Aonghus (sometimes surnamed Mac Og meaning "young son") was the Irish god of love and youth. The name was also borne by an 8th-century Pictish king and several Irish kings.