Scottish baby names

[Nearly Sane]

Some of these are....


https://www.scotsman.com/news/lucifer-and-corbyn-among-unique-scottish-baby-names-as-full-list-released-1-4891751

[Roses]

Two of my grandsons, who have a Scottish father, have Scottish names, which I hadn't come across before. Fortunately they are not outlandish like some of those featured on that list.

[jeremyp]

Some of these are....


https://www.scotsman.com/news/lucifer-and-corbyn-among-unique-scottish-baby-names-as-full-list-released-1-4891751

... literary child abuse?

[Roses]

Parents should stop and think carefully before naming their child. It could be embarrassing and might cause them to be bullied when they go to school.  Give your pet an outlandish name if you must, but not your child. Whilst my given name is not unusual, my mother hyphenated it, I was called 'Hyphen' at my secondary school. I was talking to a form mistress of mine the other week, who reminded me of that nickname, it had stuck in her mind well over 50 years later!

[Anchorman]

I retained my Christian name - the tradition in semi-rural areas is to name your first sonafter your father or grandfather, anddaughterafter your mother...which can be confusing....at the time of my father'sdeath - 1964 - there were SIXTEEN males with the same Christian and surnames in my family- from sons, fathers, extende cousins, etc. At the time of writing, thereare still around eight of us! I changed my middle namea decade orso ago to honour my grandfather onmy mum'sside, so at least there'sa avariation there somewhere......

[Roses]

I retained my Christian name - the tradition in semi-rural areas is to name your first sonafter your father or grandfather, anddaughterafter your mother...which can be confusing....at the time of my father'sdeath - 1964 - there were SIXTEEN males with the same Christian and surnames in my family- from sons, fathers, extende cousins, etc. At the time of writing, thereare still around eight of us! I changed my middle namea decade orso ago to honour my grandfather onmy mum'sside, so at least there'sa avariation there somewhere......

My second name is a shortened version of my mother's first name, which I prefer. I wanted to give our youngest girl my favourite grandmother's name as her second name, but even though it wasn't her first name no child should be saddled with the name 'Bertha', my grandmother hated it too. So I choice her mother-in-law's first name, Jane, not realising she had disliked her, WHOOPS!!!!!

[jeremyp]

My second name is a shortened version of my mother's first name, which I prefer. I wanted to give our youngest girl my favourite grandmother's name as her second name, but even though it wasn't her first name no child should be saddled with the name 'Bertha', my grandmother hated it too. So I choice her mother-in-law's first name, Jane, not realising she had disliked her, WHOOPS!!!!!

At least you didn't give your son the middle name Muriel. Could that be any more embarrassing?

[Roses]

At least you didn't give your son the middle name Muriel. Could that be any more embarrassing?

I wonder if my Great Aunt Muriel would have appreciated it if I had?  

[Robbie]

I don't think LR has a son, like me she has daughters. My daughters have fairly ordinary names but they are Biblical (didn't choose them for that reason, just liked the names).

Cameron is a nice name. I have a Scottish brother in law & he has two sisters with children (older one lives up in Scotland but the younger one, whom we see all the time, is near us with two boys), some of their children have rather good Scots names. I like Scot and Irish names, including the spellings. As LR says, as long as they are not 'outlandish' in English terms.

However I do like the name, 'Gordon' and that's not AC on my part because we have a mod by that name, I just like it.

Years ago we had a pet I wanted to call Ronan but was outvoted.

[Roses]

I don't think LR has a son, like me she has daughters. My daughters have fairly ordinary names but they are Biblical (didn't choose them for that reason, just liked the names).

Cameron is a nice name. I have a Scottish brother in law & he has two sisters with children (older one lives up in Scotland but the younger one, whom we see all the time, is near us with two boys), some of their children have rather good Scots names. I like Scot and Irish names, including the spellings. As LR says, as long as they are not 'outlandish' in English terms.

However I do like the name, 'Gordon' and that's not AC on my part because we have a mod by that name, I just like it.

Years ago we had a pet I wanted to call Ronan but was outvoted.

I have two sons, both adopted.

[jeremyp]

I don't think LR has a son, like me she has daughters.

It was a reference to Friends. Chandler Bing (male, in case it is not obvious) has Muriel as his middle name.

[Roses]

It was a reference to Friends. Chandler Bing (male, in case it is not obvious) has Muriel as his middle name.

John Wayne's real name was Marion Morrison!